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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. Rwanda is an agricultural country and a lot more is to be done to develop the skills needed to diversify the economy. It is remarkable that the inclusion of women is high and more women are employed than men.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

8- Help 1,000 businesses begin to become green. Thanks to Tim Brazier, 1000 Green Businesses ! #9- 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. By doing so, I know I am fulfilling my destiny of helping others learn how to help themselves. Teach them how to become a winner, both in sweepstakes-and in life. Photo credit: Tim Brazier.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

I wanted a Ghanaian delicacy that I had grown up on ( I was born in Ghana), and that meant getting up and going to the only African shop in the city. The screens were coming together and the color scheme I was using (using the primary African colors of Yellow, Green, and Red) was not bad. I didn’t feel like it?—?getting

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Victoria Greene of BrandPackaging.com explains : The way a product is packaged can create a dynamic, engaging story about your brand, drawing upon a multitude of features. Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. ” How do they do this?

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Victoria Greene of BrandPackaging.com explains : The way a product is packaged can create a dynamic, engaging story about your brand, drawing upon a multitude of features. Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. ” How do they do this?

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For every bottle sold, we give 5 years of clean water to a person in Ghana (we’ve helped people in Namibia and Malawi in the past too!). While working for the past few years to promote the green burial idea and trying to get land set aside in my hometown for a park/green cemetery , I decided to put my money where my mouth was.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

” Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. They use bold, but trustworthy neutral colors that create the perception of sophistication – a far cry from the red, green and yellow Rastafarian colors usually associated with cannabis. Almost every font is dramatically spaced out.

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