Equip your children with life skills - Parents urged
Lead for Shecanic Academy, Nana Afua Serwaa Adusei, has urged parents to equip their children with survival skills to help them move on in life without great difficulty.
She pointed out that skills such as cooking, swimming, a second language, driving, fixing car tyres among other skills, were crucial for the development of every individual youth, irrespective of gender.
Nana Afua Serwaa Adusei was speaking at a one-day workshop organised for fathers to teach their children how to jumpstart a battery and how to change car tyres in Accra as part of activities marking this year’s Father’s Day.
Workshop
The workshop, which was the second edition of the beginner's auto workshop, was dubbed “Daddy Taught me”.
Shecanic Academy is a community of women professionals in diverse professions, students and apprentices in male-dominated fields such as barbers, security personnel, mechanics, engineers, pilots, painters, welders among others.
Among the issues being promoted by Shecanic Academy are supporting the youth to venture into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), as well as Technical and
Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to make them economically empowered wherever they may find themselves in the world or work after school or training.
The lead indicated that apart from the education and training at school and other training institutions, survival skills were very critical in the proper upbringing of every youth so they could have a meaningful life when they wean off from their parents.
She recounted how car knowledge used to be for a privileged or selected few, but had now become a survival skill.
Fathers
Shecanic used the occasion to praise all fathers for not just raising their children but also going the extra mile to equip them with special skills that made them stand tall among their peers wherever they found themselves.
Again, she recounted how people had become vulnerable because they did not know certain basics such as how to jumpstart batteries, how to check oils or even how to change their vehicle tyres on the highway, exposing them to different kinds of dangers.
For his part, Kwabena Busia of Klick Auto Engineering Ltd reminded parents to take a keen interest in the proper upbringing and training of their children.
He appealed to vehicle users to desist from using water and rather use coolant as a way of protecting their vehicles.
Commendation
He commended Shecanic Academy for the programme, which would go a long way to enhance the productivity and safety of many people, especially those who drive and their families.
The Sales supervisor of tyres at CFAO) - Mr Jude Attrams educated parents on the proper selection, as well as the configurations of tyres.
He appealed to various institutions to make it a point of helping in the promotion of such training to their staff and the public to improve the safety and lives of people.
