The President of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Kasoa, Mr. George York, has cautioned the youth to develop their awareness of the importance of their time and how they use it.
He said they should ensure that their priorities get the time they need while being pleasant and helpful to others, and added that they recognize what and who steals their time and deal with them pleasantly but effectively.
Mr. York was speaking on the topic: “Time management, a tool for wealth creation in Nation Building”, during a youth conference as part of this year’s World youth Day Celebration at the St. Martha’s Parish in Kasoa in the Archdiocese of Cape Coast over the weekend under the theme: “Sustained by the faith of the church, in order to be witnesses”.
According to Mr. York, gossiping, traveling on long hours, perfectionism and procrastination are some of the time robbers in our society and advised the youth to schedule their activities for the day and allow space for time to react to unexpected events and crises.
He also urged them to schedule tasks to specific months sequential, adding that they write a new to-do list each day or week from the month list and to start a new day with three (3) minutes planning.
On the topic: “Women Empowerment, the way to poverty alleviation and social justice”, Mrs. Veronica Ayikwei Kofie said, women play a major role in traditional activities such as subsistence food production, food processing, home crafts, trading and domestic work, stressing that there was much scope for improvement of family incomes by the provision of better skills and equipment to women so that they may perform their tasks more effectively.
She said one cannot deal with the situation of women without touching on the struggle for gender parity which requires that men and women should be given equal opportunity in education, training and retraining, employment opportunities, representation in the decision making process including local governance and parliament and all other levels where decisions made impact on the lives of everybody.
She therefore called for an urgent address to girls and women education and training, learning and income-earning opportunities in order to improve their social status and living conditions.
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