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Dan Adipo
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Suggestions for motivating young African and looking for Mentor(s)

I have an obsession with success. I so look forward to succeeding in life and to also help others especially the youth to succeed. I kindly seek:

1) Suggestions on creative programs/interventions I can start up to help young Kenyans and Africans at large to be motivated and to succeed n life.

2) A mentor here in success as I mentor others. I wanna be responsible to someone in entrepreneurship. One who has made it in difficut situtions

Please people out there, give me suggestions/ideas.

Thank you and kind regards

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Theodore A. Hoppe 200+
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Nov 29 2012: There are several TEDTalk I can recommend to you.
Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_education.html

At TED U, Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do -- and why a little danger is good for both kids and grownups.
http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html

John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches -- spontaneous, and always surprising -- go further than classroom lectures can.
http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_on_the_world_peace_game.html

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html

I hope this is a small help for you.
- Dan Adipo
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  Nov 29 2012: Wow. Very helpful. Thank you.

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