Grace Ihejiamaizu is a Sociology graduate and emerging Social Entrepreneur with over 3 years experience managing various youth-led and community based projects. Her passion for positive change in Nigeria has led her to develop the RYPE Initiative, a project that is helping young people gain real skills to become leaders and productive entrepreneurs.
Her active involvement in various community-based projects and outstanding leadership achievements has won her some national and international recognition including her recent recognition by Google's Zeitgeist as one of the 12 Brightest Young Minds in 2011. She is also a worthy alumnus of a US Government program, SUSI - "Study of the US Institute for Student Leaders". Grace's commitment to ensuring that young people are properly guided and engaged to achieve their dreams won her the Michelle Obama Young African Women Leader's Forum Grant in 2011 in support of her work in the community.
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One of the greatest problems that is plaguing our nation is the fact that we are very wasteful. We do not know how to conserve resources. We are a generation of spenders, we have always learnt how to earn money, and spend it as fast as it comes.
Believe you me, if you want to be rich, you must be ready to learn and unlearn. You must be willing to learn new things, while at the same time you have to discard those things that you learned while at school that is now obsolete, and that is no longer working. Here are some of those things you need to learn as fast as you could:
How to make more and more money?
How to spend less and less?
How to avoid wasteful spending?
In order to gauge your Financial Intelligent Quotient, I want you to provide answers to these thought-provoking questions.
Why do most banks choose to hire cars and vehicles through leasing instead of buying their own outrightly?
Some block-making industries won’t buy their own trucks outrightly but instead they hire trucks to convey their products only when they get orders for their products. What have you got to say about their decision?
If you were to choose between a thousand naira that is appreciating with a compounding daily of 50% daily for a year and the option of having one million naira now, which one will you choose?
Please feel free to send your reply to my questions.
Poems yet unwritten, Songs yet unsung, Children yet unborn, Homes yet to be mended, Issues yet unsolved, Heights yet to be reached, Communities yet untouched, Bowels of mercy yet to be poured out, We keep striving, We keep running, We keep dreaming, Till we reach the mark................................
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I started a new blog on medium.
One of the first posts on this blog went live on July 07, 2006. The reason
for coming on blogger was to muse about anythi...
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