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Glocal CitizensEpisode 222: Toward Greening Communities--One Clean Street at a Time with Kwadwo SafoGreetings Glocal Citizens!
The Glocal Citizens community has gifted us with another inspiring diasporan. Heneba Kwadwo Safo, a graduate of the University of Ghana in Civil Engineering is the founder and leader of the BuzStopBoys. The Buzstopboys is a volunteer group promoting a Clean, Green, Environment (CGEn) through patriotism. With brooms, dustpans and a strong sense of community spirit, the BuzstopBoys have become a driving force for positive change. Their initiative focuses on cleaning heavily trafficked areas, creating a cleaner and more welcoming environment for both residents and visitors. It is no surprise that fellow Glocal Citizen...
2024-05-1441 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 106: Mindset Hacks to Start the New Year!New Year Greetings Glocal Citizens!
As we usher in 2022 aka double deuces, this week’s episode is all about mindset. We’re going back into the Global Citizens archive for a compilation of mindset hacks from early guests of the podcast. In case you’e new to the podcast and not unlike some of my guests you might be wondering what is a mindset hack? Well, a description that I quite like is that mindset hacking is exploring the limits of what is possible, seeking excellence, or even balance which entails doing something exciting and meaningful, deliberately finding opport...
2022-01-0419 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 6: Glocal Citizens with Leslie Bentil, Founder and Director of Gutta SolesHello again, Glocal Citizens! This week I catch up with Ghanaian-American entrepreneur, Leslie Bentil of Gutta Soles from his current home base in Switzerland (hence, we sound a little different this week over the phone line). GUTTA SOLES was established in 2012 in Accra, Ghana. The company's initial intention was to design a shoe that was durable enough to handle surface conditions in Africa. It is has since expanded into a social enterprise with eyes on transforming the welfare of families and delivering innovation to communities using simple indigenous tools.
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2020-01-0820 min