Call for Applications

As you all know, the next Population and Housing Census will be held in March 2010. Before that, a trial census will be conducted in five (5) District Assemblies across the country between October and November 2009.

All those of you who feel a genuine urge to contribute to the best of your abilities to the success of the motherland are invited to apply NOW for Census Field Personnel positions.

Over 45,000 volunteers will be recruited by the Ghana Statistical Service for the exercise. The volunteers will be spread across 36,000 enumeration areas throughout the country to do the counting. Transportation, training of personnel and allowances will be paid to field officers.

Help make the 2010 census a model for Africa!

Please write to YLM.Ghana@gmail.com for application forms, information, and references.

Nkontompo ne nnabraba sεe ɔman

Treachery and double-dealing spoil the state.

Akɔneaba ne anwono

Going and coming is the way to weave: It is by hard work that we achieve success.

Ɔdehyeε anko a, akoa dwane

If a royal doesn't go to battle, the slave runs away. (If a leader does not give a good example, his followers will desert him.)

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!

Aso nni berε

The ears have no time to spare. (Responsible people are seldom idle.)

Call for Action

YLM is not only about talking. Above all, we want to be actors of our own lives, to be pro-active and to make a meaningful impact in our lives and those of others.

We are going to post job offers, business leads, invitations for tender, etc. here, in the YLM yahoogroup and on Facebook.

Why do we share the opportunities instead of keeping a lid on them and trying to take advantage of them? Simple: because Africa, and Ghana in particular, is a land of plentiful opportunities and there is room for everyone to make their mark and be successful; we believe in healthy competition and in excellence. If you believe in yourself, work relentlessly at getting better and better at what you do and like best, one of the leads that will be posted here may very well be the leg up you need to reach the heights you were destined to all along.

The first of these opportunity-sharing occasions is for IT and language specialists to work together to create computer systems locales for 100 African languages within 12 months time. This is an Afrigen project, which you can read about by clicking here.

The 100 African languages targetted by this effort include several Ghanaian languages. This is an opportunity for you, the youth of Ghana, to show to the world that you have skills and that you are capable of harnessing them to produce something of tremendous value to your human environment.

Let's work together at offering the world a valuable contribution. Get in touch with us to register your interest, mentioning your area of expertise (IT and/or languages), which language, among the languages listed in the presentation, you can speak and write, and any other information you may think relevant.

As a group, we trust we can make a powerful proposition, and position YLM as a compelling source of excellence.

Let's do it!