Ghana is the only West African country Rick and Wendy have visited to date. It is also where TechnoServe was founded abroad in 1968 and is its longest running office. Starting in Ghana, Rick and a few colleagues taught TechnoServe staff in several country offices...
Seth Adu Gyampoh graduated from University of Cape Coast in 2004 with a commerce degree and certificate in Java programming and business computing. After working for a local audit firm, he left to start a media business with a fellow graduate. The two young men...
Long a mainstay of Ghana’s economy, cocoa generates much-needed foreign exchange for the country, as well as income for millions of poor farmers such as Yaw Dankwa and Susana Nsiah. But most of these farmers haven’t viewed their farms as businesses. As a result, they...
Since graduating from university in 1984, Isaac Bohulu had been a pharmacist in Accra, Ghana including six years spent at Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss-based international pharmaceutical company. But he always was an entrepreneur at heart, especially after gaining his...
After he graduated from university, Daniel Oduro worked for Nestle in Ghana in the sales force and then as a training manager for a total of 6 years. He then moved to Merchant Bank of Ghana as a product manager. He had an idea for a self-service laundromat for...
Ethel Emma Asomani was a $10,000 winner in the 2007 business plan competition. She wanted to upgrade her already-establisheda multi-faceted business and IT-oriented community center which included: library and online reference resources; clinics and weekly classes...
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