A couple of weeks back, I had the privilege of being invited
to be a part of a new age of critically thinking, new innovation-oriented, and
empowering company heralded by two of the most amazing young men that I know.
Thinkafrik is a fully owned Ghanaian company that seeks to promote subsidiary
projects, educational outreach projects; which varies from scholarships awarded
to needy but brilliant children (Unlike other scholarships, the Thinkafrik
scholarship, when awarded can be retracted if the pupil/student does not keep
up with his school work, and /or their grades fall. This is to make sure that,
students and schools keep up and put their best foot forward at all times), provision
of school learning materials to deserving, yet deprived schools, and mentally
enhancing but FUN recess materials to schools, and community outreach projects
which involves identifying and helping desolate communities and empowering them
with basic and practical ways of improving their livelihood. However,
Thinkafrik is not a Non-Governmental Organisation but rather an entrepreneurial
business that seeks to create change within the continent, and enhance the
lives of the African people, especially the youth.
WHAT IS THEIR VISION?
Thinkafrik was borne from the need to help improve upon the
state of mind of the African youth-ergo, stop depending on someone to help you
and help yourself, turn your passions into profits, change your life using the
resources that our beautiful motherland is blessed with.
WHAT IS THEIR MISSION?
Founded by Dennis
Kofi Borti and Emmanuel Godi, this company looks to empower young minds with
the necessary technical expertise and
tools to finding innovative, alternative, and sustainable solutions to Africa’s
challenging problems which will go on to hitherto improve the lives of the
people. It also looks to providing alternative and renewable energy supplements
for Africa’s energy deficiency gap by using the natural resources that is
abound on this continent .i.e. wind turbines, solar energy and bio-gas. They
also seek to create waste management projects to help reduce environmental
issues that arise from incessantly disposing off plastic and human waste; case
in point, the recent devastations caused by the floods that hit Accra on the 3rd
of June. Thinkafrik has technical and operations support for students in basic
and high schools through outreach programs in the sciences (agricultural,
engineering, computer, and aerospace dynamics), and the Thinkfarm program for
tertiary institutions. They also seek to invest through partnerships in diverse
markets and fields.
THE LAUNCH IN TAMALE
After launching its first and second hubs in Accra, and
Kumasi respectively, the Thinkafrik Tamale hub was unveiled. The launch was
attended by some very prominent people in the metropolitan area. Here, the
outline and organisational structure of the company was explained to the
members. The whole purpose of creating a company like Thinkafrik was explained
and the expectations from the people who are going to be a part of this
experience were outlined. Executives were picked out and introduced to the
people, and an agenda was set. As with the other hubs, the hub in Tamale is to
identify challenges facing communities, and schools within the region, and seek
out innovative ways and means to solve them. Over the weeks, the Thinkafrik
team visited schools as a way of introducing the company to the public. They
went ahead to present school learning materials such as books, stationary,
footballs, school uniforms, T-shirts and many more and scholarships to
deserving schools and students within the metropolis.
The schools included the
Kanvilii Presby Experimental School, the Bagabaga Demonstration Primary school.
They also visited a community in the Sagnarigu District, Kpene, to present some
water storage facilities to its inhabitants. As with the other schools, some
school learning materials, and uniforms, as well as footballs were given to the
community school. An experiment was done to showcase how dirty water can be
processed to become clean for drinking and free from germs and diseases. This
was undertaken to educate the students in the community school and to enable
them to try it at their homes and also teach their household how to keep clean
drinking water. Here too, presentations of scholarships were provided the o the
needy but brilliant students of the school.
The team visited the community school to make some donations which included uniforms, books, pens and others.
To know more about ThinkAfrik follow them on
Twitter @ThinkAfrik
Instagram @ThinkAfrik
Facebook facebook.com\thinkafrik
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