Beauty and Spa industry needs educated people(29/6/09)

The Chief Executive Officer of Allure Africa, Mrs Dzigbodi Dosoo, has urged Ghanaians to disabuse their minds of the notion that the beauty and health spa profession is the last resort for school dropouts.
She observed that most of the people in the industry were where they were because they had educated themselves to the highest level.
Mrs Dosoo said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic at the closing ceremony of Iyaba 09 in Accra last Thursday.
The Iyaba 09, a beauty and spa exhibition, was held for the players in the industry to learn and acquire new skills.
Mrs Dosoo said they were also contributing their quota to national development through taxes and the creation of employment for the youth.
On the exhibition, Mrs Dosoo said it had a huge turnout with participants acquiring lots of new skills.
She advised the beauty and spa associations to be united as “it is togetherness that would make the industry grow economically”.
For her part, the Sales and Marketing Manager of Allure Africa, Mrs Nana Efua Rockson, noted that although the exhibition had a huge turnout, there were a few hitches, which were later rectified.
She expressed the hope that Iyaba 2010, which is slated for February next year, would attract more participants than this year’s.
Some participants and exhibitors the Daily Graphic spoke to, expressed their gratitude to Allure Africa for the initiative and asked that it should be held every year for those in the industry to learn more.