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The Power of Community Empowerment: How Do You Define Success?

Supporting and helping others achieve their dreams is not just a requirement. It is a must. One of the things that makes us successful is to look for people who are rejected and underprivileged in our societies and make them desirable to others. Thebe Pholoholo, my favorite friend from South Africa once said, “If successContinueContinue reading “The Power of Community Empowerment: How Do You Define Success?”

IF YOU LOVE AFRICA, PLEASE READ THIS AND GIVE FEEDBACK: FOBDA FOUND THE REASON WHY AFRICA IS STILL IMPOVERISHED

Leading effective change and desiring community transformation requires more than words. These two go beyond mere talking; they require actions. Africa is rich and has been a resource and row materials center for developed countries in Europe, Asia, America, and China and many of these countries admit to this reality. Contrary to this reality, AfricaContinueContinue reading “IF YOU LOVE AFRICA, PLEASE READ THIS AND GIVE FEEDBACK: FOBDA FOUND THE REASON WHY AFRICA IS STILL IMPOVERISHED”

Gender Equality: Society’s obligation Approach

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honor and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well”…. Samuel Rashdie. While there have been notable achievements in many parts of the world in creating a fair space freeContinueContinue reading “Gender Equality: Society’s obligation Approach”

Living for Others: The Reality About Human Development

Image from: https://justtheassistant.com/2012/11/27/just-the-assistant-in-africa/ Over the past 6 years, I have been haunted and puzzled by so many different questions about life. Why is there too much poverty and unemployment? Why is there too much suffering and pain? These questions have been haunting my soul, giving me no space for breathing. Thus, I decided to criticallyContinueContinue reading “Living for Others: The Reality About Human Development”

Thinking Like a Successful Entrepreneur

Across the world, business has become the center of human economic transformation. As many people are still flocking to employment as their hope for survival, others are spending sleepless nights trying to think about what they should do to become independent financially and socially. But what does it mean to be independent financially and socially?ContinueContinue reading “Thinking Like a Successful Entrepreneur”

POTENTIAL IN YOU

Typically, people say, “I am good for nothing.” They refer to what they have tried and never worked. They knocked on the doors of offices looking for a jobbut nothing positive came up, now they quit trying and believe life is unfair to them. As a matter of fact, you have succumbedto the same idea,ContinueContinue reading “POTENTIAL IN YOU”

Business is a Source of Income

“I enjoy being a business owner,” says Mr Henry Galasiano, a business man who is a proud owner of two big motor spare parts shops in the city of Lilongwe in Malawi. The name of his business is PH Investments. Mr Galasiano states that he has been in business for about 22 years of whichContinueContinue reading “Business is a Source of Income”

Kuruka’s Business Idea For the Year 2022

“I will open a Children’s Recreation Centre”–Amutuhaire Kuruka. “I enjoy interacting with children in sports and other recreational activities,” said Amutuhaire Kuruka, a young man from Uganda who is currently studying Bachelor of Theology degree with a major in Organisational Leadership at African Christian College. After observing that many children are lacking support in termsContinueContinue reading “Kuruka’s Business Idea For the Year 2022”

Start Your Business and Succeed

“Mind-set is the fuel to success” Beatrice Longwe (Malawi)

FOBDA Fuels Investments in Africa: Self-Awareness, now in Eswatini.

It becomes so impressing to see that most of the places we hold our workshops, students are more concerned with investments not employment. But the main problem is that they lack encouragement on how to carry on with these ideas. They have these big pictures but they don’t how to implement them. Some most famousContinueContinue reading “FOBDA Fuels Investments in Africa: Self-Awareness, now in Eswatini.”