MYS Boss upbeat About Great Transformation at BDOTC

On occasion marking the 17th graduation convocation of the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS) run Business and Domestic Occupational Training Center (BDOTC), Youth and Sports Minister,  Dester Zeogar Wilson, was upbeat about  the institution’s transformation.

Ceremony marking the 17th graduation of the BDOTC was held Friday, February 24, 2023 at the SKD Gymnasium in Paynesville City, outside Monrovia, with 197 students leaving the walls. 

The institution was established in 1975 during the regime of Liberia’s 19th president, Dr. William R. Tolbert Jr. to provide skills training to especially underprivileged and high school dropouts, adolescent girls, and disadvantaged women.

The center runs a one-year specialized theoretical and practical certificate course, both in the morning and afternoon, offering beneficiaries employable and sustainable skills in the fields of housekeeping, waiter or waitress services, baking, cookery, beauty culture, braiding and weaving, tailoring, event decoration and front office management. And as usual in the vocational field, the institution is widely dominated by females.

Accordingly, Minister Wilson is hopeful that the institution would e transformed, modernized and expanded in structure, programs and system before the next batch of graduates.

With expectation of relative autonomy before the next batch of graduates, Minister Wilson challenged the administration and staff to take on greater responsibility, which according to him, comes with a demand for greater capacity and proficiency. 
“And this speaks of consistence of progress, commitment and professionalism of the administration and Staff of BDOTC on the one hand; and the visionary leadership and team work from the end of the Ministry,” he stated.

The Minister is also hopeful that the graduates will do well as the BDOTC is all about; transforming lives and giving our students the keys and skills that open doors of opportunities. 

“That is why we demand for competence, character and capacity; while we gear up to deliver relevant professional and livelihood skills in the midst of it all, we care to power your passion for you career set; we seek to stimulate your sense of self-worth and desire for self-reliance, self-sufficiency and productive livelihood,” he Minister indicated. 
 
“As you will recall, we demand respect, humility, honesty, obedience, focus and independence. We stand for quality and for standard. Without compromise, we shall uphold these fundament prerequisites,” he, among other things,  added.