Business Workshop

I was in Ghana for a 52-day visit from June-August 2009 during which time the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) requested for a 2-day workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship that would benefit 32 African university students currently being sponsored through the Deutsche Akademische Fluechtling Initiative (DAFI) or Albert Einstein Academic Refugee Initiative Fund. As a DAFI Scholar myself, it was a honour and privilege to be given such a great opportunity to give back to the refugee student community thanks to the UNHCR.


The structure of the 29-30 July 2009 workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship was based on the recently published second edition or expanded version of The Moneymaking Code—a "what-to-do" and"how-to" self-help course material that is designed to help you discover moneymaking capabilities of niche products and services in the niche marketplace. You may have been pregnant with great entrepreneurial ideas, but a few obstacles here and there might have prevented you from progressing your business and innovative ideas to the next level.

As refugees face many challenges particularly in the job hunting department, the workshop placed emphasis on how to create one's own business very little or no start-up capital. It was practically about:

• Sharing straight-forward, easy-to-follow, non-jargonistic information on how to unlock the moneymaking secrets.
  
• Helping you quit talking, and begin doing.
• Helping you create extra streams of income while you keep your present job or continue doing the stuffs you love.
• Encouraging you to become an entrepreneur with minimal or zero start-up budget.
• Helping you translate your writing ability to becoming an authorpreneur—getting paid for writing.
• And the list goes on...

From left to right: David, Elton, Melanie, me, and Allison

With the generous involvement of academic colleagues (David Ako Odoi, Elton Owusu, and Allison Felix Hughes), Melanie Flowers and Nurideen Ibrahim of the Flowers School of Technology and Management, the support of the UNHCR, Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), KLK GmbH,  Gatlin International LLC, and Kojo Denanyoh CEO of Primestar Productions, the workshop was successful. If you are interested in reading the Analysis of the Course Participant's Evaluation (courtesy of Dr. Joseph Adonu), please click to DOWNLOAD or view workshop photos.

Above all we had fun.