There is a strong wave moving and
spreading wide across Africa. A wave of change born from the hinterlands of
Ghana. It is a wave that is inspiring young people into innovation, impacting
change in people and re-awakening an industrialization drive in Africa. This
wave is ThinkAfrik!
ThinkAfrik is a fully owned Ghanaian company which was first
established as an idea to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to
Africa’s problems through the application of Science and Technology. We seek to
empower African lives by providing engineering solutions to Africa’s most
prominent issues and establishing other corporate industrial environments to
improve the quality of living of its people. An innovative alternative of
facing poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, that is about empowerment, not
dependence, and investments, not charity.
It is a radical idea of creating hope in a devastating
world. It demands investing in and daring to go where markets have failed and
aid has fallen short. It thrives on a moral imagination which makes capital
work for us, not control us. The dream is one that is bold, hairy and audacious
– exactly what Africa needs.
We pride ourselves on our vision of a more industrialized
and economically independent Africa that is sustainable from generation to
generation.
ThinkAfrik is very focused, active
and starting really strong at finding solutions to very specific local
problems. They are getting quick, tangible and successful results because they
are collaborating on the field. ThinkAfrik is in touch with the rest of the
world because they have a very holistic, open and collaborative approach.
ThinkAfrik has undertaking several
projects in Ghana including organizing school visitations, science sessions, outreach
programmes, donations and scholarships to some rural schools and communities as
part of their Education and Communal Outreach Projects. Several beneficiaries
of their projects include Nasru Deen JHS (Asokore Municipality – Kumasi),
Kanvilli Presby Experimental (Tamale Metro), Bagabaga Demonstration Primary (Sagnarigu
District) and the Kpene Local School (Tamale Metro). A total of over a thousand
pupils have impacted and about 22 pupils have benefited from scholarships
within the companies first month of operation. They growing at a remarkable
pace not imagined before. They have also undertaken a water sanitation
awareness and post-harvest crop processing program in the mainly farming
community of Kpene. Inhabitants where taught safe water handling and
purification techniques and good crop processing practices. Storage gallons
where donated to help the inhabitants store their potable water in.
Apart from social work which is meant
to impact lives immediately, ThinkAfrik also has a wealth generating profit
making part which seeks to identify innovative ideas and convert them into
sustainable businesses. Thereby creating employment, generating wealth for the
people, adding up to Africa’s GDP and hence uplifting Africans as whole. A
percentage of proceeds from the business section of ThinkAfrik continually go
into funding the Social Works side of the business. This allows sustainability of
the company and lessens dependence on donors and supports. They are trying to
combine social entrepreneurship with profitable investments and wealth creation.
A model not tried before but they believe it’s the only way of really solving
underdevelopment in Africa. They are trying to grow a new breed of young
entrepreneurs that think more than just self but impact change in their
societies as well.
Founders of ThinkAfrik, Mr Dennis
Kofi Borti and Mr Emmanuel Godi both growing up in Tamale at some points in
their lives have an unquenchable conviction to impact change in Ghana and
Africa as a whole. Africa must awaken and ThinkAfrik is initiating that
movement.
For more information go to www.thinkafrik.com
Contact ThinkAfrik at:
Address: HNO 11
Grader Estates, Nungua-Accra
Email: info@thinkafrik.com
Telephone: +233 240 723 199
+233 246 579 408
Great works. Leading a generation to change the world.
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