Acquire vocation before travelling overseas:-Ashong

Tema Manhean (Greater Accra) 29 April ?99

Madam Beatrice Naa Afieye Ashong, Member of Parliament for Kpone/Katamanso,on Tuesday called on parents to ensure that their children acquire professional skills before travelling outside the country.

When the youth travel outside without vocation, it becomes difficult for them to seek employment, she stated, adding they are therefore tempted to indulge in social vices like prostitution and drug trafficking.

Madam Ashong, the Tema Municipal Organiser of the 31st December Women's Movement, was speaking on "Violence against women/female circumcision" at a forum organised by the Movement for Women, at Tema Manhean on Tuesday.

She noted that "this unfortunate situation tends to create embarrassment for their families, the nation and Ghanaians living outside the country".

Madam Ashong said the movement aims is not only empower women to know their rights and responsibilities but also to educate them on pertinent issues concerning their lives.

It is important for women who are housewives to wake up from their slumber and work to earn some money to improve their lot and not to depend solely on their husbands for their livelihood.

Ms Ashong noted that housewives without any economic activity rather face hardships on the death of their husbands because without economic power, their children become a liability not only for the family but to the nation as well.