VIM -Volunteer, Inspire, Make a difference, Inc. in collaboration with Rural Health Aid Foundation International (RHAFI) and Rescue the Perishing Mission (REPEM) organized a Free Medical Screening and Evangelism at Hegakope a small village located on the Accra- Nsawam road in the Ga West District of Ghana. The goal was to reach out to the four communities in Hegakope with the word of God and also meet their medical needs. Dr. David Yaoga Sunu,
Read moreThe focus for maintaining a healthy body and life must not depend solely on the experience and expertise of a physician or the competence of a nurse but primarily on you the individual. That was the message at the first ever Hypertension Project organized under the VIM Health Outreach Program for the Ghanaian Community in Tracy Towers -Bronx USA. Leading the discussion on Hypertension the President/ CEO of VIM Ms Felicia Agyei-Odame, urged the community
Read moreMariam Koné left Canada five years ago to start a business consulting firm in Bamako, the capital of Mali. As her client base grew steadily, earnings from her company, Koné Conseil, also increased. Business has been great, she says. Although her previous job as an industrial engineer at a consulting firm in Montreal, Canada, was stable and the pay was good, Ms Koné wanted a new challenge in her home country. Her return to Mali was risky and audacious,
Read moreUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A project spearheaded by scientists in Penn State'sCollege of Agricultural Sciences and Uganda's Makarere University is helping African youths establish businesses and generate income. And these young people, in turn, are providing services that can help farmers improve dairy nutrition and increase milk production. This summer, Sjoerd Duiker, associate professor of soil management and applied soil physics, and Ephraim Govere,
Read moreWe often hear that it is tough growing up in today's world. It is fair to say that the challenges and pressures on young people are pretty relentless. Whether cultural, social or educational, that transformational period in a young person's life when he becomes an adult is full of pitfalls. Leveraging the powerful tools of modern communications is proving to bring voices of African youth closer to decision makers,.Voice Africas Future -- a campaign
Read moreSenegalese opposition politicians denounced the country’s high unemployment rate to mobilize youth against former President Abdoulaye Wade in the country’s 2012 presidential election. Joblessness was one of the main issues that drove the country’s many young people into the streets and to the voting stations to press for a change of government. At least six people died in the protests, and President Wade was defeated by the current leader,
Read more“Many of the fastest-growing economies in the world are here in Africa, where there is an historic shift taking place from poverty to a growing, nascent middle class. Fewer people are dying of preventable disease. More people have access to health care. More farmers are getting their products to market at fair prices. From micro-finance projects in Kampala, to stock traders in Lagos, to cell phone entrepreneurs in Nairobi, there is an energy
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