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‘Project Demo Day’ launched

The maiden edition of Project Demo Day (PDD) has been launched at the Ecobank Head office in Accra.

PDD, organised by CorpsAfrica, a non-profit organisation, is aimed at pro­moting a culture of African philanthropy and build the professional skills of the youth in proposal development, present­ing, pitching, fundraising, and networking.

Launching the project last Friday, the Country Director of CorpsAfrica in Gha­na, Mr Moses Cofie, said the Demo Day was inspired by an American TV show, “Shark Tank”, which offered entrepre­neurs the opportunity to pitch and secure funds for their businesses.

He also added that a total of 16 volun­teers were deployed to 16 communities across the Central, Volta and Northern Regions of Ghana.

The community development projects of the volunteers, including building schools, wells, agriculture and irrigation systems, and supporting small business­es start-up in Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, Rwanda and Kenya.

Meanwhile, CorpsAfrica has secured a US$59.4 million partnership with the Mas­tercard Foundation to increase volunteers work in Nigeria, Uganda and Ethiopia, mainly to help fight against poverty.

“These amazing volunteers, who have served the communities for seven months, have been able to assist their communi­ties to identify major challenges they are facing, and taken on the great responsi­bility of helping them solve the identified challenge,” Mr Cofie said.

He urged development partners, philanthropists, corporate bodies and other Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to respond to the funding appeal from volunteers to enable them to imple­ment their respective community-identi­fied projects.

The six selected volunteers, who pitched their community-identified projects, were Joana Doudu Owusu, Martin Rasheed Musah, Victoria Wintonya Ndebugri, Ibrahim Ismail, Susana Kolog and Joshua Kwawuvi.

They provided a description of their respective projects, the expected impact, budget and sustainability plan during the five minutes presentations.

The projects included facilitating train­ings in vocational skills for women and girls in Nantong Zoo, providing teachers’ bungalow and a nursery school in Anweem Kissi, and constructing a technical training workshop in Peki-Tsibu.

The other projects were constructing a three-classroom block with staff room in Chanzegu, constructing a Communi­ty-based Health Planning (CHPS) com­pound in Kwameatta, and constructing a place of convenience in Kanfiehiyii.

Some representatives from Compas­sionate Ghana, Vodafone Ghana, Peace Corps, Mastercard Foundation, Access Bank, Camfed, Future for Africa, Send Ghana, Global Shea Alliance, GIZ-Ghana, West Africa Civil Society Institute (WAS­CI), Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), witnessed the ceremony.

Some of the representatives at the event commended CorpsAfrica/Ghana for their community-based initiatives and pledged to work together to inspire young Africans in solution-oriented philanthropic works.

BY TIMES REPORTER

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