 Mamie! Hello! I have to come and visit you today. I'm very grateful. Thank you so much for welcoming me and you know my sister is actually she's not a seamstress okay and um she used to work for the mining sector all right and I told her to stop okay why because I felt like being in the mining sector she won't be able to make money so I opened up a shop for my sister as a fashion designer but she doesn't know anything about fashion you see this so what I did was we employed people and she's more like oh do this do this but now I feel like it's very important so she's also learning but I didn't know that something like this actually exists okay you know you need to educate me and also educate a lot of people that watch my videos my name is Wadamaya and I'm not in Village Boy from Ghana and 2022 I'm actually on a journey to teach people how to start up a small business teach people how to do stuff in their own way you know and what you're doing it's something that I think it's called fires to be part of what I want to do in 2022 so I'll be happy if you can introduce yourself and tell me what you do all right thank you very much for visiting us where you are is now is known as garment technology center situated in both water region and we do fashion and designing we sell for both men and women we also train the youth to become their own fashion designers okay after they're called the right examination which is NGITIA and CUTVET after two years they can continue their education in that certificate some will just open their own shops and start their own businesses and some even want to take the certificate to go to do other courses like police soldier any forces they can take them in that certificate so that's what we do which means if you provide a certificate for them they will write as a nation then they will give them the certificate I thought this is a skill that someone has to learn yes you have to I mean it has to come with how good you are yes to be able to sell stuff but not uh is it the exam is it a written form no we do aura in practicals okay it's more practical you do more practicals uh small theory in addition to the aura only I really want to know yeah now you are teaching a lot of people right now I guess now the first of all let me ask you how many people have you trained in your entire life how I trained about 250 in your entire career yes I trained more even more than 250 and now I'm having 24 students who are currently with me listen I want to know your story first because I don't know if you you just started doing this maybe you also started from somewhere yes so let me know how it all started okay when I completed school which was a whole technique and this whole technique it was whole that was whole tech it was technical institution so I attended it and I did fashion when I completed I polished it with those who are at the roadside and learn more practicals from them then I went back when when it turned into university I went back and upgraded my course over there would you say that the roadside was the best yes they knew they knew the practicals more than the theory when you when you go to the school you know more theory than the practicals that's the difference you think it's the right way no it's not the best but that is how it is so what are you doing to change that then okay no listen hopefully it's just right I can't even say from here yes I guess the student over there needs to be coming in here for more practicals yeah they normally come for their attachment in here yes they come here to do attachment and I teach them the practicals freehand cutting they do pattern drafting over there and everything pattern pattern pattern but we we do freehand cutting so they come to me for attachment and I teach them the freehand cutting you let the freehand cutting from the street yes they don't they don't they don't do the freehand cutting over there they do pattern pattern pattern anything from the streets is the best let me understand yeah after school you set up your own shop or something yes I set up my own shop when I was doing they were so that I have to power to upgrade at where I was so I went to attend to the university and I went and did top up and I continued from there there are so many young girls watching us right now probably you had a machine that time did you did you have a machine that time yes I have but not the one that we are using now you bought the machine with the old money yes I mean with the help of my family members okay right now you've built a successful business we have so many young women watching this video who would love to be like you thank you what is that advice that you want to give them okay I would like to tell you that they should come to learn skill even if you want to go to tech sharing if you acquire the practical before you get there it'll be easy for you to move fast or to understand the thing well but if you don't know anything about the fashion and you go to university to do fashion you have some challenges so our advisor to come to us those of us who are in the system right now doing teaching the skill they should acquire the skill before they get there to go and do a polishing then they can upgrade it to any level that they want to go to even the masters or doctorate degree so they should first come to us to acquire the basic ones before they go that should be my advice for them the youth of today loves money yes especially myself I love money more than anything yeah but I want to know if I want to do this kind of business is it really lucrative very very very very very very very very very so how lucrative because fashion is something that even if a child is born the first thing which we don't purchase they will wear clothes for the person the person will continue wearing clothes until the day the person dies a new cloth will be sewn for the for the person so fashion is something that exists it doesn't have an end not that beginning it's a it's a continuous thing so it's a very good business for everybody to do even if you are not a fashion designer if you know how to so it will help you oh yes I think I need to start my training today what do I do I want to be a fashion teacher how to how to train the needle so the girls that have trained so far are more than 250 and they are they are all they all start they all put on their own fashion is fashion please and there are some women to join the forces and some are continuing their education and some open their own shops and they are doing it yes who are you um right now what's your target market who are the people that I want to go into the national market that's my target now so I'm planning I'm trying how to enter into that market but who are the people that you sell your products to now I do so for schools organizations hotels hospitals and individuals and these are for traditional councils yes I did a wedding yes yes I saw those want to wedding gown men's wear ladies wear skirt and top carbines lids everything that women be wear even your social for dead body yes I saw throughout too I saw for the livings and I saw for the dead I saw every but the children I saw for children too and the old people too I saw yes I would love to talk to some of your and then I will get back to you I'll be grateful girl how are you doing how come I even know your name Veronica yes please how are you doing I'm fine how long have you been here today is exactly one year that I've been here oh happy one year anniversary thank you and what have you learned so far I've really learned a lot here I've learned how to sew slit and cover I've learned how to sew men's shirts a skirt and top and anything that has to do with things that people wear I'm able to sew not perfectly all but I'm able to sew some for now for now yeah I only wear shirt so can I get a shirt from vero after one year I have to wait for three years no one year now I can get a shirt from vero yes please vero um let me understand you did formal education right yes please from primary to secondary school secondary school so when we're in secondary school you're not able to sew no why I didn't had it in mind to do it but when I completed I thought this why is that it would have been perfect coming here than going to the tertiary school a round of applause for vero I mean this is one of the things that they don't teach us because we all go to secondary school university and we come out without knowing anything I think there's something wrong with our education system so vero after completion what do you intend to do I intend to join the immigration first for now that is my plan for now thanks immigration you will not allow me to go to tobu eh all right I want to thank you so much but thank you too I appreciate it I'm always stayed at the shop we close from school we come back to the shop and then we always had baby dolls and we had pieces so I take my doll and I decide to sew something for my Barbie doll to wear are you the only daughter yes I'm the only daughter oh okay so I guess I guess you are having brothers too big brothers oh you're the last one yes last one last one I really stop on yeah so are you gonna take over the mantra from your mom yes that's that has always been my dream I've always dreamt of establishing a place for entrepreneurs people who like working with their hand hairdressing because I've I realized I can do hairdressing to make up at the street which I have linked after SHS I went to do makeup at the street and then probably add a few things like my brain yes anything that has to do with yes skills work I've always been someone who has been interested in them even decoration I try to do something just at looking at people do it so what are you doing now are you in school yes I'm in school but unfortunately for me I'm not doing anything related to what I want yes so why are you doing what you're doing then I'm doing what I'm doing because of circumstances and then where the air blew me too I guess after that's the university right yes and I said the degree is important so it's just a piece of paper so I guess after school yes we have to have another conversation yes seeing Jifah having her own brand where when you see her dresses yes since dress and all of that you know one half house yes that would be amazing yeah we've already started so are you selling anything at this moment yes I do sell what do you sell I sew her bonnet and shorts I have about three or four night wears but I realize that people would find the night were expensive so I just reduced it to the head bonnet and the shorts that's so I do it I package it very neatly and then I sell to teenagers especially those in the tertiary so I have some in school right now and other university campuses too if I have my friend there I give some to them they sell for me okay but I don't think Instagram is all of the best I have a page on Instagram oh okay I have a page on Instagram all right is that it's not fast on Instagram okay people see don't worry so I'm gonna share your Instagram handle if you want to buy a bonnet if you want to buy short from Jifah check out her Instagram page and then go support her business thank you I spoke to one of the workers okay and I just wanted to ask you this question do you think sewing or learning in school should be something that as the youth of Africa we need to start learning that from basic school or you think we have to come and learn this after school thank you very much I think skill training is good for almost every youth to learn how to learn a skill even a room in which year is birthed by skilled skilled people this room the dress you're wearing is for school people the seat on which you are sitting is those who are quite the skill they did all this so the skill we must want everybody must learn at least from GHS the person must try to learn a skill and upgrade it in SS then continue a tertiary so skill training is good for almost everybody to acquire then do you think there's something wrong with our education system that serious serious because normally they get to SS before they choose a subject or a course but that you should start from any stage as like as at least from GHS level so there's a little problem with our education system I want to know I have a lot of audience both Ghana and outside Ghana if somebody wants to buy from you or wants to get a shed being designed from the workers or how did they reach out to you my contact number yeah okay I'm sitting in Ghana border region who behind whole technical university the name of the shop is called garment technology center that's the name and we are very close to the road side we are not difficult to look at okay and I will also put a number in case you want to speak to her for advice on one consultancy just call her she's gonna answer yeah okay I usually gonna answer that why not why not the content number is 024 321 7357 I have so many Africans that watch my videos you have a message for Africans what would that message be thank you very much my message to Africans who normally watch your video is that they should wear made in Ghana clothings we ganiers we can design fabrics very well so they should buy our products and wait to promote ganiers for us that's my advice for them if you had a chance to change one thing in Africa I would like them to change the way we dress the normal dress from those we imported garments which have been imported to the the country but our products are there and they don't buy them so I would like I would like to change the way they the way they have been wearing important one so that they can wear the ones that we produce in Ghana do you think we are ready to embrace made in Ghana we have to we have to we have cotton in Ghana yes we have but you are not producing it we have but we are we I don't know we have cotton in Ghana yeah but I think it is the system that the government is not putting in place to support people like yourself so that we're able to produce more for us to embrace it exactly you don't think that is a problem it's a problem it's a problem final question if I go what has been the major challenge setting up the school major challenge that you face is starting this business the major challenge is finance for example I intended expanding this place so that I can train more students but finance is the problem I need to buy more machines and I need a bigger place where other students can also stay there and other people will be teaching there I'll also be taking others here so that I will train more people to become their own fashion designers but the challenge is finance how much does it cost to set up one machine one machine it's almost 1700 Ghana cities okay so I'm setting up five machines for you which means you need to have five extra students that that would be my student yeah that would be very good I'm gonna set up five machines for you that would be very good you know what this year is the year of 20 on this YouTube channel and I always want to set an example so that you all will follow I'm getting five yeah right let me know how much can you get I want the next time I come here I want to see you training 50s today no we're very great we've been trained more than that okay the 50s today you know how we do it it's by force all right um I'm gonna put a contract it has nothing to do with me I'm gonna put a contract it costs thousand someone I'm right I'm gonna convert it into dollars okay and just send it the money directly but next time I come I want to see 50s today no problem I'll visit you maybe I'm very busy but I know in six months time I'll come around we'll be grateful so I will send a check to Viglo and then he's gonna thank you very man give him a clap thank you we thank you very much for that wonderful support we are very good we are not expecting it but you have done it that's what god can do we want to say very big thank you to you and may god bless you reward you thank you very much thank you so much for having me on behalf of the student to be thank you very much for the visit we appreciate your time you know you are a very busy man but you have your time to stay very really communicate with me god bless you thank you so much for everything thank you thank you don't forget to like the video share subscribe any part of this youtube channel my name is Thomas the guy the baby the one and only I know you from god peace out