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While getting breakfast at the Best Western Island Hotel this morning in Lagos, a guy called my name and called me over. The face looked familiar but I couldnt remember where I knew him from. Then he mentioned Barcamp! Anthony Fesu. I remembered that he speed mentored at Barcamp Sunyani 2013. He told his Ecobank colleagues, you need to know this guy, hes doing an awesome job. He gets people to mentor others. His colleagues were impressed. Anthony went on. There were a lot of junior high school students there. We had over 70 students from Dumasua JHS at the event. One of the students who talked to me said he wanted to be a pilot and how could he go about it. I realised that he couldnt really understand English well. So he asked me to speak in a local language to him. If this child cant understand the language of instruction in becoming a pilot, how can he? I had to let him know that he needed to get the basics right and understand this language more. This is something that this child would not get in the classroom. They would get some form of education but little to no exposure. This is part of what we are doing with Barcamps. Anthony thought about what had happened and his perspective changed. Hes become a huge fan of Barcamps since. Today, we are currently having Junior Camp Dumasua. Weve gotten some mentors to go to their high school to continue what started at Barcamp Sunyani last year. We encouraged the students to become cleaner and help keep their surroundings clean. Sunyani has long been known as the cleanest town in Ghana and its losing that. The school is organizing a cleanliness competition and the winning class would get tshirts with Keep Dumasua clean at the back. Oh... I think I just got a blog post... over to mightyafrican.blogspot now. cc Rose Meda Donkor Kofi Kafui Kornu J.b. Kouame Mantey Joachim Madiba Danbo Ali Maiga Kobe Subramaniam Nat Alpha Pedel Oppong Yao Francis Kumadoh Priscilla Esinam Yevu Nikoi David Kotei
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:42:39 +0000

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