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Climate Solutions For Business
Hello meet Alimamy Sesay from Sierra Leone. Alimamy is a university graduate( he read Business Administration and Management.) He was the Global Ambassador /West Africa Team, at Thought For Food Foundation, (TFF) in 2018, which is the world’s leading platform for next generation. He is the current Assistant National Coordinator at Team 54 project international.
His project idea startup is tittle “Climate Solutions For Business” is to plant economic Trees for human consumption to tackle the urgency needs to combat climate change and to set a platform for packaging to marketing to the expected growing population by 2030.This economic trees fruits provide livelihood to community people and should be surplus for export. In this light, he is looking for potential sponsorship, partnership help to get into the next level. This idea or project is the nexus between the SDG 13 and SDG 2.
This innovative idea has also been nominated for “Best Entrepreneurship Ideas” 2019
You can visit the link below to vote for him and also read more about his project.
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Michael E. Boahen On The Flashback Show
My guest for today on The Flashback Show is Michael E. Boahen popularly known as “Sapp“.
He is a student at AUCC reading banking and finance. Because of his love for food, he decided to go into entrepreneurship.
Michael is the CEO of Sapp’s Special located at Adenta opposite the church of Pentecost.
Sapp’s Special is your home of noodles, gizzard, sausage, etc.)
Banku and tilapia, palm wine, asana, sobolo and yam chips are also available. One amazing thing is that, any food you purchase you get a free drink.
Please tell us something about yourself
Guest: I’m Michael Evans Boahen most people call me Sapp, 23 years of age, studying banking and finance at AUCC. I stay with my mom and step dad with 3 sisters. I love to sing, tour and love food
I attended St Andrews JHS and Suhum senior high. I grew up at my grandparents apartment with 5 uncles and life there wasn’t just easy sometimes as a young person growing up, you will need some assets but it was overlooked
Why did you decide to focus on music and entrepreneurship?
Guest: I started singing at the age of 11 and joined the main church choir cause I could really sing and was admired by a lot of people. I basically think its a talent from God and I was part of an interdenominational group called TM3(The Ministers Music Ministry). I started my eatery joint basically because of monetary issues sometimes from the house and personal needs.
My choice of music is Gospel (RnB)
What or who motivated you?
Guest: My mom is my only motivation
What was your key driving force to become an entrepreneur?
Guest: I just want to leave a legacy basically and give the best to my society and the nation as a whole. Also I have the passion to support the homeless cause I know how it feels to be hungry
Tell us something about your business?
Guest: Its called Sapp’s Special located at Adenta fueling station opposite the Pentecost church. We deal with noodles being shrimp, gizzard, sausage, etc.) Banku and tilapia, yam chips and pork. We have palm wine, asana and sobolo available and one amazing thing is that any food you purchase you get a free drink.
How did the idea for your business come about.
Guest: Just needed to start something for my life firstly to support my home and my personal life. I started by using my mothers old cosmetic container
How did you come up with the name?
Guest: Lol, I sung at a program one day exactly like a gospel sensation called Marvin Sapp and most people in the choir I was part started calling me Sapp and it turned into a household name
Why food?
Guest: Cause I love food
How did you get the background and skills necessary to run this type of business?
Guest: I used to watch food network as a teenager and sometimes when mom and granny is in the kitchen cooking
How did you raise your capital to start?
Guest: Personal savings and support from my mom
What makes your food different?
Guest: Cause of special ingredients.
Any challenges
Guest: Hmm there has been a lot from trying to find somewhere to start the shop because the environment I was looked like a slum area. I remembered the day I placed the container at the new location one man came to push it down and destroyed the cemented floor I did
Whom do you seek advice from for your business?
Guest: Basically I deal with customers response most
Why will customers stay or do repeat business with you?
Guest: I always want to give them the best.
How do you build a successful customer base?
Guest: Because I don’t joke and I am very reliable
How long have you been in business?
Guest: I started last two months.
How do you market your business?
Guest: Through social media.
Where do you see your business in the next 5 years?
Guest: International bases
Do you have any other business or are you planning to open a new one?
Guest: Erm for now am just dealing with this eatery joint obviously other concepts will pop out
Do you work alone or with a team
Guest: I have a team or workers.
Tell us about the most embarrassing moment in your life so far
Guest: Wow I remember back in high school. I was the protocol prefect and was to give a speech at assembly and I made a very big grammatical error and everyone had to bust out in laughter
Can someone order and how long would it take to deliver?
Guest: Yeah, I do take orders and we deliver exactly the time you give to us.
What is your favorite aspect of being an entrepreneur?
19)Knowing what to do and executing it to the fullest
What has been your most satisfying moment in business?
Guest: When a customer gives a positive note about our food.
What is the part of your life experience you would alter if you had the chance to?
Guest: I don’t really have one.
If you were to write a book about yourself, how would you name it?
Guest: There’s no elevator to success “use the stairs”
What’s the one question you wished someone should ask you during an interview?
Guest: How strong I was living with a step dad who always criticize your deeds?
What difference have you made in your community?
Guest: The area at which I began my shop was some how not clean so basically I led or introduced some form of cleanliness in that area.
How can we contact you for your service?
Guest: Anyone can contact us on 0242229331
Also, kindly follow us on Instagram @sapps_special
Today on The Flashback Show is ‘Peculiar Women Of Substance‘ foundation, known for empowering women and helping the society by way of mitigating poverty, hunger and other things that hinder the growth of children. Most of their projects are done in the rural areas.
Please introduce yourself to our readers…
I am Christodia Okorley, l graduated with a Bachelor degree in science, offered Integrated science education at University Of education, Winneba. I’m currently offering my national service at University of Cape Coast. My interest is in doing missionary and voluntary works, teaching and helping others. I like writing, good music and traveling. On my leisure time, l spend time with my family and friends or surfing the web.
I’m Mavis Akua Sackey
A student of university of cape coast and currently studying Business Management.
Born into a Christian home, giving back to society has been my passion especially females because of the family I come from.
My name is Millicent Asabea Boafo I completed St. Peter’s Anglican Senior High School. I am a Christian.
I am Emelia Bannerman. I graduated with HND in accounting from Accra polytechnic in 2016 and am currently pursuing my 1st degree in accounting at central university. I’m currently working with Ecobank Ghana. I was born into a Christian home and I always love to do something to help the society especially women.
My name is Ephraimina Ewuraesi Yiadom-Boakye
I completed Twifo Praso Senior High School (Central Region)
I’m a Christian
I’m Domey Esther Efia. A student of university of Cape Coast and currently studying Educational psychology. I’m also a worker at Pickmix Company as salesperson.
I was born into a Christian home and helping people has always been my joy. It gives me joy to help the disable people, orphans and other needy people. It’s always a privilege and an opportunity to help people in need.
I’m Isabel Apetorgbor
I completed Adidome senior high school in the year 2014. I was born into a Christian home where lending a helping hand to the needy brings us so much joy and satisfaction.
I’m currently working at gunnerz enterprise where we deal with all kinds of car spare parts as a sale personnel.
How did you guys meet?
Emelia: I was in a Christian group with Mavis and She always post stuff about this group called Ladies of virtue. I grew interest in it and I asked to join. That’s how come I became part of this great family.
Christodia: I got to know about Peculiar Women Of Substance, Formerly known as Ladies Of Virtue through a friend at school, who introduced me to Mavis.
Domey: I met this wonderful personality Mavis Sackey on Facebook and through her I got to know about the foundation formerly known as Ladies of Virtue.
We became friends and part of this great family.
Ephraimina: I met everyone through my best friend, Mabel on our Previous Platform LoV
Isabel: I got to know the CEO (Mavis Sackey) through a friend.
Millicent: I met Mavis Sackey on Facebook. There we became friends and I got to know about her organization formally ladies of virtue.
Who initiated this idea?
Mavis: I initiated this idea together with my late friend.
Who came up with the name of the organization?
Emelia: The name of the organisation used to be Ladies of virtue which our CEO (Mavis Sackey) came up with. But during the time of registering the organisation, Ladies of virtue was already taken. So the executives deliberated and concluded with Peculiar Women of Substance (our current name).
Mavis: The name was initially Ladies of virtue conceived by myself and my late friend. As we begun with registration and other things, we had to change the name to it’s current name which is Peculiar Women Of Substance.
The name Peculiar Women Of Substance means, everyone can be woman but it takes someone who possess some virtues to be a peculiar woman of substance.
Substance in the sense of both material substance and virtues.
Why did you decide to go with only females as executives?
Emelia: We decided to go with only females because the aim of this group is to raise virtuous women who will impact society. And that can only be achieved by giving women the chance to hold executive positions.
Domey: We want to do solely with ladies because we want to bring up virtuous and substantial women to impact the society and also give opportunities to young women out there who got something in them to give to the world.
Any challenges when you guys started?
Domey: Yeah! There is always a challenge in everything. Until we get to the top we need to conquer difficulties
a. One major challenge is lack of funds. We find it difficult in raising funds and getting sponsors to aid us fund our project works.
b. Lack of commitment with the executives to help the aim of the vision to be accomplished.
I would use this platform to plead with us the executives to help our Mama with the vision of the foundation to be fulfilled
Christodia: Lack of funds.
One of the main difficulties PWS face is gaining access to financial support. Getting donors is a hard task. Due to this factor, we sometimes have to limit resources for our projects and other times keep postponing the project till we get enough fund.
Emelia: As my sister said fund is one of our biggest challenge. Which affects some of our projects.
Lack of commitment of some members.
This is another challenge
Most of the members are sometimes not persistent. Not paying of dues, not attending meetings, don’t have time for projects, etc..
Mavis: The challenges have been funding.
It’s quiet difficult to get sponsors on board to aid you.
So in as much as we want to help, funding is the major challenge.
We had so many members who took the platform as a joke, there was no seriousness and because of that we couldn’t push through with even small visions.
What motivated you guys to join this campaign?
Christodia: One main thing that motivated us to join this campaign is the love of God and the love to help others. Love is the source of connection to help someone else to a higher level of smile and light.
Also the feel of joy due to the inner sense of satisfaction related to cooperation and sociability. Furthermore, coming together as ladies to empower each other and to educate, impact, support and motivate other ladies and women in our communities.
Domey: What motivated us to embark on this campaign is the love of God and the love for mankind.
Another thing that motivated us is the joy, fulfillment we see in others
Tell us about the vision of the organization?
Mavis: The vision is to make every Ghanaian girl child an asset and not a liability by empowering them, nurturing and harnessing their talents so they can stand somewhere in life knowing their worth.
Emelia: Also to touch lives and impact the society. And by God’s grace we’ve touched lives with most of our projects.
Ephraimina: To Empower Women through the Word of God, help the needy and be a huge impact on our communities and Country as a whole.
Isabel: The vision of this foundation is to raise a generation of ladies / women to be an asset not a liability.
Millicent: The vision of this organization is to raise a generation of ladies who will stand out wherever they go and also stand up to a task in the community to showcase their worth as women or ladies.
Ephraimina: Our Main Objective is to strengthen Women. In our society, women are mostly looked down on, but we want to change that idea so we encourage females to overstep their boundaries set by society that restricts them to prove their worth.
Which people are your target and why?
Mavis: Our target is children and women.
We’re mainly for the rural areas but we still do projects in urban areas depending on the project.
Domey: Yeah, our main target is children, young ladies and women in the country as well.
We are mainly for both rural and urban areas depending on the project involved.
How was your first project?
Mavis: Our first project was really tough because of funding as mentioned earlier.
Its normal for the beginning of everything because we had to fight for acceptance, convince the public that we’re really going to do what we’ve told them we will do.
We had lots of challenges but we still pulled through.
How did you raise the capital to do this?
Mavis: Our first project was a visit to Nungua Orphanage home.
Our major source of funding was from dues paid by members.
The rest was from friends, loved ones and well wishers.
Domey: The project was funded by our dues and contributions from friends and love ones.
Kindly brief us on some previous projects you have done.
Mavis: We’ve had several life touching projects by the grace of God.
We’ve been to Nungua Orphanage on three occasions which is located in Nungua.
Teshie Children’s home once and it’s located at Teshie.
Motherly love orphanage home located in Kwabenya.
Don Bosco Catholic Junior High at Winneba and it was a sanitary pad project.
We educated them on various things which includes, relationship talk, career choice, Health and sex related activities they needed to abstain from.
Free Deworming at Great mission international in Accra.
Free blood donation at 37 military hospital where we willingly gave out blood to their blood bank to save lives.
Christodia: Sanitary pad campaign project
In Don Bosco Catholic JHS at Winneba, September, 2018.
We provided 1000 pads to the girls in the school.
We invited nurses who educated the students on their health, the menstruation cycle and how they should take care of themselves during and after the menstruation period.
We had a speech by some of the executives on
Education and it important.
Living a Godly life.
Relationship talk and many more.
We have also had a lot of online summit and training.
Such as
.*three days love summit, dubbed: when to quit.
* the peculiar wife
*women empowerment summit, dubbed: woman, you can make it.
And many more
Domey: A visit to the Sekondi female prisons with interned but healthy project. Our motivate behind this project was to visit our sisters or mothers in the prison so as to make them feel loved and cared for. We also did that as to keep them healthy in their state of condition.
We provided them with the word of God, reasons why we visited them, health screening, drugs, food, care, love, joy and we crowned it with donation of items to them.
Any upcoming project?
Mavis: Oh yes, we have lots of projects in the pipeline but the current one is our bore hole water project.
We intend to construct a bore hole water for the people of Ada Aminapah.
Christodia: Bore – Hole water project in Aminapah Village.
The people in this village, travel about 3km to get access to water, there is no source of water in this village, so PWS want to help them by constructing a bore hole for them and the cost is about 100,000 Ghana CEDI’s
Domey: So PWS is taking it upon herself to construct a bore – hole for the people of Ada Aminapah.
Are you open for sponsors?
Mavis: Yes please, we’re open to sponsors and for partnership as well.
Christodia: Yes. We are calling on the general public, organizations, friends, family and love ones to support.
Mavis: Sponsors or supporters can reach us on 054563838 for further details.
How can someone support you?
Mavis: Our Fidelity Bank Account is opened to sponsors,well wishers and anyone who wish to be part of this great move.
Fidelity Bank Account Number:2090886130815
The name is Peculiar Women Of Substance
Mobile Money Account is also:0244682565.
The name is Peculiar Women Of Substance.
Christodia: MTN MoMo Account: 0244682565 name is peculiar women of substance.
Bank Account Number: 2090886130815 ( fidelity bank)
Do you have a page where you share your projects?
Mavis: Yes please we have pages.
Facebook:Peculiar Ladies of substance
Instagram: Peculiar Women Of Substance
Whatsap Platform:0548563838
Domey: Also on…
Website: Peculiarwomenofsubstace.org
Christodia: And also on our YouTube page: Peculiar women of substance
Anything else you would like to add before we go?
Mavis: Yes please, I would want to let our Society know that we the individuals are the society, we make the society and it’s our responsibility to let it stand so we should help in any little way we can anytime we get the opportunity to give to society
Domey: We use this opportunity or platform to call upon the society to support ‘PWS’ to be a blessing to our country and the world.
Give a shout out to anyone
Mavis: A big shout out to all sponsors, partners, supporters, members, executives and board directors of this great vision.
Christodia: We want to say a big thank you to all members of Peculiar Women of Substance for the support, love and involvement.
Also our door is open to any lady who is interested to be part of us to touch lives and make an impact.
Domey: A big shout out to God for making ‘PWS’ dreams come through. Our Sponsors, Partners, Supporters, Members, Executives and Board Directors of this Great Vision.
God bless all well wishers
Love you all from ‘PWS’
‘PWS’ to the world!!!!!
Christodia: We also thank all our our sponsors for their support. God bless them and they should keep supporting us.
Mavis: Another one goes to our friends who are supporting us to make this journey a smooth one.
We say God bless you all.
The love remains biiiiiiiiiiiig❤
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The Flashback Show
This week on The Flashback Show is “Peculiar Women Of Substance Foundation”, known for empowering women and helping the society by way of mitigating poverty, hunger and other things that hinder the growth of children. Most of their projects are done in the rural areas.
Stay tuned as we invite them on The Flashback Show to find out how they started, challenges and their progress so far…
This and every Friday
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