One text message changed my life.
Kingsford is a National Service person who has started creating designs that will use discarded materials to construct classrooms for kids studying under trees and in other unconducive environments. He attributes this journey into innovation to a text message he received about the CoRe Programme.
My name is Kingsford Gyesi Arthur, and I reside at the Madina business area. I was doing my National Service with the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) at the turn of the year when COVID-19 broke out. As the pandemic escalated, all the scheduled trainings and off-site engagements that the company had scheduled for our learning could not take place.
Consequently, we were sent home. I was in the process of looking out for other opportunities when, one day, I received a random text message on my phone informing me about the CoRe Programme. I acted on the text message, and I am glad I did. Today, I can look back and say one text message changed my life. When I joined CoRe, I opted to participate in the Real Estate session where my mentor was Mr. Yamoah. CoRe put me on the trajectory to gradually start my own non-profit designs, making use of discarded materials to construct classrooms for kids studying under trees and in unconducive environments. The idea struck just before the CoRe programme, but currently, it is happening!
My perception about the real estate industry has significantly been enlarged by my mentor, Mr. Yamoah, who shared his wealth of experience in varied fields of life. In the next decade, I see myself building a one million capacity brick kiln to construct mortgage homes for the marginalised.
This is my dream and thanks to CoRe, it is possible.