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THE VALUE OF IDEAS

In the last quarter of 2008, some inspiring thoughts run through my mind. Since 1995, the Foundation has been preaching the need for the youth to cultivate the habit of saving and investing. I was thinking of how we can create a platform that will enable them to develop this habit right after our seminars. I spoke with a number of financial institutions and business executives in that sector to help shape my idea and get them on board as partners. I was very confident of the possibilities in those thoughts at that time. I succeeded in selling the idea to a number of financial institutions and in May 2009, the Future Leaders Investment Club (FLIC) took off. Today, we have over 12,000 people signed on as members, from over 50 educational institutions and have raised over GH¢120,000 so far.

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CELEBRATING INSPIRING GHANAIAN SUCCESS STORIES (Part One)

He went to the US to study electrical engineering at Rutgers University. After his degree program, he had the wonderful opportunity to work at NASA in 1995. Since then, he has worked as a Rocket Scientist, Complex Systems Engineer and Design Expert and a senior NASA Spacecraft Systems Engineer. Among the many things he has done at NASA include the development of an extra-vehicular infra-red camera and the development and commanding of spacecrafts (over five of them so far). For instance, in 2006, he was the man behind the NASA rocket that launched the Calipso environmental satellite.

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