All in Education
Mastercard Foundation held a virtual summit to launch their report on Secondary Education in Africa on Thursday 13th August. The virtual summit was live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube and featured prominent African political leaders, policy makers, youth ambassadors, secondary education teachers and others. The key topic in discussion focused on how the youth can be prepared for the future of work and each speaker highlighted projects being done towards this.
Stanchart Ghana in collaboration with Vital Voices and Mentoring Women Ghana organised a mentorship for young women from various tertiary backgrounds during this year's International Women's Day.
This tweet led to several people responding to say that you need to know your worth and not accept low pay for anything. This prompted Lemuel to go on a realest tweetstorm by sharing his personal experience as a KNUST graduate who had hopes of finishing school, landing a good job and making it in life but life apparently had very different plans for him.
I find the above opening lines for the famous book by Charles Dickens very fitting for this post on one of the many and unforgettable experiences I had during my time in a girls boarding school. Maybe mine spoof version would be..
