Skills to Learn in 2014

Skills to Learn in 2014

Help Put A Smile On The Face Of An Orphan With IHAV Foundation

This new year, exactly on the 25 of January 2014 will see the IHAV Foundation in partnership with Dress-A-Kid Ghana organize a charity project dubbed ‘Pieces for Peace’ to help put smiles on the faces of over 200 orphans at the Teshie Orphanage and its environs.

The charity project aims at collecting pieces of fabric that will be donated and sew them into beautiful clothes that the young orphans could wear throughout the new year. This initiative according to the organizers is to show love and support to the orphans in our communities.

The organizers are hence appealing for donations of pieces of fabrics or volunteers who will sew the fabrics. To donate or volunteer please call 0244848719, 0248264353 or 0243650790.

IHAV was founded in October 2012 under the Companies Act, 1963 (Act 179) of the government of Ghana, as IHAV FOUNDATION, by a group of young African visionaries who saw the need to create a forum where the youth would come together to share ideas on addressing the challenges in our societies, not just by thought or word of mouth, but through sustainable actions as well.

IHAV members are passionate about improving drastically, the quality of life across the continent and repainting a new image of hope and success for Africa. IHAV has since October 2012, grown and expanded to reach many young people, spreading out to over 10 countries across the continent.

You can visit http://www.ihavfoundation.org or http://www.facebook.com/pieces4p for more information.

 by -  ABDUL-RAHIM SULEMANA (www.opinionghana.com)

Help Put A Smile On The Face Of An Orphan With IHAV Foundation

Help Put A Smile On The Face Of An Orphan With IHAV Foundation

By OpinionGhana

Life episodes and lessons: Generating Wi-Fi from the sun

Life episodes and lessons: Generating Wi-Fi from the sun: One of the seemingly crazy ideas that came out at an idea generation shop I attended the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (ME...

Bootstrap

Perhaps the most popular word amongst my fellow EITs this month is the word Responsive. And it is a very important word in any entrepreneur’s life too. Exactly how responsive are you to change? Change in consumer taste, change in competition, change in market and change in strategies. Exactly how responsive is your col-xs-? How responsive are you to the smallest changes. Are you ready to make a carousel in your business so that it changes regularly or are you very satisfied with your static returns. It is very necessary that we constantly revise our business objectives and find solutions that will be the jumbotron in our successes. How much bootstrap do you have in your business? How responsive is your business to change?

THE 3.25%

I realized today how extremely valuable and gifted my classmates were.  Out of 800 MEST applicants for the year 2013, 26 students were chosen to prove their worth to the world. This gives a percentage of 3.25. These 25 people were chosen from the best of the whole lot. I almost forgot their worth. Maybe because I was chosen as part of them and have the same amount of MEST DNA they all possess.

 What makes these MEST-ers unique? It is their adaptable nature to change and their extremely high growth potential. You see more transformations in their 2 years at MEST than you probably would in their whole lives before MEST. How they can grow businesses and start recognizing profits in 48hrs. How a complete dud in techies can become such an expert in the universe of technology. And how a complete amateur in ping pong can go about smashing all his opponents to victory.

Granted that others, given the same opportunities the 3.25% have may perform at par or even more, but what makes these people so unique is their readiness to harness their potential into actual products. I see a lot potential in these people, but  I also see a group of young determined entrepreneurs ready to make it happen beyond the limitations.

It is their adaptable nature to change and their extremely high growth potential. You see more transformations in their 2 years at MEST than you probably would in their whole lives before MEST. 

MY HERO

I told Nathaniel he was my hero this week. Nathaniel started coding at the age of 13. Two years down the road and this young justice league member is already coding for start ups as a freelance programmer. So the reason why Nat is my hero? He never saw it as too early to code, neither was he limited by the distractions of a growing teen or the comments he got from his social environment. Nat has taught me that just as it is never too late to learn, it is never too early to learn either.

With that said, it is time for me to break them barriers and start setting personal records for myself, national records for my homeland and global records for the world to compete with.