Very focused and
determined, Mrs Crankson sacrificed her garage and sold her family’s only car
to achieve this great success she had always fantasized. This occurred when she
lost her saloon she left behind in the care of a worker she trusted and
travelled to London.
“When I came to Ghana,
the person I left my saloon to London was nowhere to be found; she had
mishandled everything, all my equipment were destroyed, utility bills were left
for me to pay and re-renting the place again the landlord had demanded a lot of
money. So I decided to use the little equipment that were left behind to start
all over again, which included selling my car and using my garage”
This was money she
acquired by working tirelessly in some minor jobs abroad.
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| The Garage |
Being a beautician
today came as a surprise to Mrs Crankson during her days in London with her
four lovely girls. “After my secretarial school I got the opportunity to travel
abroad, I got there, got married and started having kids. Fortunately all my
four kids were girls. Before, they had long kinky hair and teachers were always
complaining and I had no idea of what to do. So I forced myself to keep their
hair clean and kempt. The hairdressing career started for me with my children”
She explained that,
there weren’t many black saloons in London so she decided to do her children’s
hair by herself. “Gradually I begun to have interest in it, even when my kid’s
hair were not scatted I forced to do something with it, the few blacks around
also started bringing their kids for me to do their hair. It became so
professional and I started to receive recommendations when I went to pick my
kids from school. This grew into a passion, so I advised myself and registered for
an evening hairdressing course in Tower Hamlet College in London.”
She graduated from the
hairdressing, got the certificate but couldn’t use it in London because she had
wanted to take good care of her kids. Her family relocated to Ghana and she realised
that the kind of hairdressing is different from London’s so she enrolled in
Excel College of Cosmetology, graduated and invested all her money into the
hair dressing saloon but to go back to London and return again to meet nothing
but to start all over again.
Mrs Crankson was not
discouraged from her passion, but rather garnered more courage and got an idea
to establish a beauty school. As determined as she was, she decided to sell her
family’s only car and use the garage as the teaching room. She placed an advert
in the Mirror newspaper and within the week she had four students to start
with.
“Here in Ghana we don’t
have a lot of these beauty schools around and normally when students are
learning hairdressing it’s purely apprenticeship, so I decided to establish the
beauty school to share the ideas and skills that I have acquired in the UK.”
With a challenging
foundation, Hair Planet College of Cosmetology has developed into an
ultra-modern beauty school that meets international standards. They offer courses
like Nail Technology, Beauty Therapy and Hair Dressing. Currently, the college
has about 150 students of which some 35 will be signed out in its 5th year
graduation come September.
The hair and beauty
college also has a scholarship scheme for needy and students with financial
difficulties. It is currently offering free training in the Adentan
Municipality.
The mother of four, has
accepted that obstacles are bound to come, but how one handles it will determine
their ability to succeed. “I’m already aware that there would be obstacles, so if
they come, I just ease down and most times I find a suitable song that I love just
to de-stress myself.”
She however advised
that, when young people encounter obstacles, they must use it as a step and
move to the next level. “Young girls must set a goal and make sure to fulfil them,
but must also learn to be courageous, organised, humble and responsible.”
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