YLM 2010

A very happy New Year 2010 to Ghana and to you!

We have been very quiet online since the beginning of this year, but very active offline.

YLM has a lot of projects for the youth of Ghana and will share our progress here for you to offer suggestions, constructive criticism and get actively involved.

I wanted to remind all of us that in Ghana, a "youth" is a person under 35 years of age. It does not mean that all the under-35 should sit and wait for the over-35 to provide help and advice; indeed, we all have to pitch in to make Ghana grow and fulfill our brilliant individual and collective destinies.

YLM is particularly  interested to promote education, vocational training, agribusiness and other initiatives conducive to self-sufficiency (as individuals and as a nation) as well as to our beloved Ghana's image abroad.

We are now starting a few initiatives within our remit. Keep  tuned, as we'll be communicating about them here.

In the meantime, please feel free to share your specific, concrete ideas on actions you may want to undertake but lack the means, manpower or anything else to get it out of the ground. Your ideas questions, etc., will be shared with the YLM Yahoogroup, who may help with ideas, contacts, advice, or even a different perspective. Very often, the passionate initiator needs someone less involved, yet interested and knowledgeable, to give perspective, a little more detachment to be able to see the bigger picture and smooth the few wrinkles that look like insuperable mountains to the person who is too close to them for objectivity.

With dedication and hard work, we will succeed!

Exciting news about the YLM Facebook group

Our Facebook group passed the 100 members mark earlier this week and is already 141-strong as of today 12 noon!

Special thanks to Nana Appiah Acquaye whose Facebook status this morning invited his contacts to discover more about YLM. Do emulate him! YLM has a lot to offer to you, the youth of Ghana: inspirational and motivational messages, one-to-one counseling with the group moderators, job announcements, business leads, tips to enhance your self-confidence, advice on goal setting, etc.

We remind you that YLM also has a dedicated email address: YLM.Ghana@gmail.com; and a yahoogroup: youthliberationmovement@yahoogroups.com.

We posted a call for action yesterday, inviting those of you who can speak and write one or several Ghanaian languages and are computer literate to work together towards the localisation of computer systems.

YLM also has a host of initiatives ready to be deployed in the agricultural and agribusiness sectors.

Invite your friends to join, start contributing to the discussion on FB or the yahoogroup, feel free to get in touch with the YLM moderators...

Let's set the ball rolling!

Initiatives you may join

There are lots of initiatives we have planned for YLM. This is an NGO which intends to help its members first and then Ghana at large, not forgetting other international members who will need our assistance to realise and write their success stories and reveal their true talents.

One of our insights is that there is enough potential and resources in Ghana, for instance, that we can harness with the dormant talents within ourselves. We can not all be engineers, lawyers and doctors; some of us have to start realising the immense opportunities in the food chain for example.

We have programmes to help the youth who are studying agriculture to develop that interest, awaken their talents and be innovators in the food-chain industry.

I know for a fact that the Indians in the UK food-chain have large farms in Ghana and are importing the Ghanaian produce to the UK from Ghana, which they then wholesale to Ghanaian shop retailers. This trend will have to change.

Our primary aim is the future leaders of our country. Let's help them and ourselves, have self-belief, be honest to ourselves and true to God.

Get onboard!