Springboard Road Show Foundation

Shirley Ama Atta Hayford

Intervention: CoRe

I met people from different backgrounds. 

I met a whole lot of people from different backgrounds…”, Shirley asserts, as she chronicles how the opportunity to network with different minds and perspectives have served as an eye opener for her.

My name is Shirley Ama Atta Hayford. I served as an e-Counsellor on the CoRe Programme. Through the programme, I have gleaned a lot of knowledge from programme beneficiaries, my counterparts, and the Springboard-CoRe team.

The CoRe Programme was an eye opener for me especially the topics which bordered on finance. My level of knowledge and understanding has shot up and I’m able to make an impact on my beneficiaries and family. Imagining or placing myself in the shoes of beneficiaries has enabled me to understand them better and relate with them more empathetically.

I met a whole lot of people from different backgrounds, shared ideas and we learned from each other in such an awe-inspiring feeling of togetherness. I also got a lot of fulfilment from counselling participants who shared their challenges with me. Indeed, beneficiaries of the programme gave a lot of good feedback about how they have been impacted through the various modules of the programme and how they have thus improved upon their skills and are making progressive changes in their lives.

Aside of the numerous impact areas of the programme, beneficiaries are indeed happy and have developed a more positive outlook on their lives and future. Making new friends and establishing contacts with others has really served to expand my scope of networks which I believe will be relevant in my career pursuits.

I must say that it has been a good experience and we are returning to our various workplaces with a lot of new discoveries, talents, and ideas from the CoRe programme. Kudos to the engineers behind this great intervention called the CoRe Programme.