Category Archives: FGBD Fund

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Posted in EWB, FGBD Fund |
Jun
12
As you might remember, thanks to the efforts of team HODA, the Farmer Group Business Development Fund was created with the money raised from the event. In brief, the fund will award 5 groups with GHC 100 loans to put towards their group farming business activity. In order to be eligible for the loan, groups had to be undertaking the Agriculture As A Business program as well as fill out an application that challenges the groups to reflect and plan for their farming...
Posted in EWB, FGBD Fund, Think Opportunity... Not Charity |
Apr
11
It would have been so easy for Team HODA to go online, and with a click of a button donate all their money raised to an overseas development charity. It would have been so simple, so worry free… but so unlike Team HODA! From day one they refused to take shortcuts, and until this day it remains the same. They had two conditions in mind for the money raised during the event, 1. They wanted the money to be used directly in Bongo to create opportunities. 2. They wanted to...
Posted in EWB, FGBD Fund |
Apr
8
They say change doesn’t happen overnight… but they never said it can’t be created in a day! On March 7th, 2009 the first ever ‘Hoops, Opportunities, Dreams… in Africa’ (HODA) Basketball    Tournament took place, making 5 of my incredible friends the first 365 Challenge 2 Change Champions! The event was the brainchild of one of my closest friends and fellow rocket scientist, Len D’Mello, who thought that it was about time we started to create...
Posted in 365 Challenge To Change, Be The Change, FGBD Fund |