CCSL ends business training for local artisans
Council of Churches Sierra Leone (CCSL) on Friday, February 7 concluded a one-day training for local artisans in their conference Hall at King Harman Road in Freetown.
The training attracted some local artisans belonging to different Churches around Freetown including Auto Mechanics, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Tailors and Repair Workers.
Delivering a paper, the Director of the Development Department, CCSL, Mr. Hassan Bangura, asserted that the workshop was organized to further discuss on the use of tools for self-reliance.
He described the participants who have already learned certain skills as apprentices for the fact that they are still training under their bosses. He pointed out that the CCSL is helping Churches for those Churches to help prepare their youths for the future.
He stated that the training was organized not only to prepare young artisans for them to be able to start their own businesses but also to get ready local artisans to enable them produce quality products in their different undertakings.
‘’We want to train you as business people, therefore it is important for you to have both technical and management skills,‘’ Mr. Bangura emphasized.
He described artisans as people who are trained to be able to work with their hands and earn a living. He further elaborated that some people might be very good workers but they could not be good managers because they lack the knowledge on how to start and manage a business, how to sell and how to handle their customers.
He urged young artisans not to be job seekers but that they should be job creators. He admonished the participants to develop self confidence and gain positions in their lives.
In his short comments, the Programme Officer for the Development of Local Artisans, Mr. Ibrahim P. Bangura, said the participants are people that were already in business.
He noted that they have been assisted already with tools to start their business and urged them to handle their tools well.
By Abdulai Mento Kamara
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