Today everyone seemed edgy with news of the ash cloud over Europe and flight cancellations on the rise. But apart from that, some of us were also super excited about our final sessions of all 3 projects: Women entrepreneur training; mentoring students @ Amasaman School & training teachers @ Amasaman school. The teams working on these projects were all geared up for their last session & we wanted to ensure we left with a *Bang!*
For the women entrepreneurs, Gopi, Olivia & I had planned a graduation ceremony. Our last module was mostly a recap of the last 3 weeks & some more gyaan on marketing & costing principles. Post the session, we got everyone to do the graduation walk (walk all the way to the back of the class & then march right to the front). Gopi added music to the ceremony. It was fun to see their excitement to see the Google T-shirts & certificates they received on graduation. One of the women – Navadis – was particularly animated and added some fun to the ceremony through exaggerated gestures.
Samuel, the TVN staff who organized these programs for us, had some good feedback to give about the women entrepreneur training (it was good to hear!). It was particularly rewarding to learn that some of the women have already started asking for their next load for the business to implement some of th ideas discussed during the training. I really hope one day they’ll be all able to achieve their dreams – provision store owner wanted to own a super market, a Yam seller wanted expand her business to include other products etc.
We said good bye to Ofankor where we’d come every week for our programs and started back to Accra by around 3:30pm. Yet another program completed.
We had our final team dinner @ Polo club. I feasted on shrimps!(not even the least exotic when compared to croc tail, but I’ll live)
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