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The Africa Mentor Network Inc., a mentoring and networking organization which was successfully launched last year August is ready to embark on its official membership drive. The event will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the Silverbird theatre foyer from 12pm till 3pm. The Africa Mentor Network is calling on all Leaders, Business executives, young professionals, students and individuals to come listen and sign up to help make a difference in someone’s life. The purpose of this membership drive is to help create awareness of the organization to the community. 

This will help them understand what the organization stands for, educate them on the various types of service it will provide to the community, engage them through membership and selfless volunteer opportunities and help them commit to being a change-maker by helping other people become successful. The Africa Mentor Network has various unique programs and opportunities for its members. These include, the Inspired Villages Project, which is tied into the official membership, the Mentoring programs, After-school programs and the Motivational speakers program.

Silverbird Entertainment, Graphitec Ghana Limited, Skillions Records, YFM, e-TV, Brainpoint Media Productions and The Coca Cola Company are proudly supporting this membership drive. The Africa Mentor Network Inc. is currently accepting donations and sponsorships from generous individuals and corporations. Donations can be made by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and visit their website at www.africamentor.org. The Africa Mentor Network Inc. was founded based on a simple idea of helping the African youth to help themselves through mentoring and networking. 

Everyone needs a mentor in his or her life. Every young person at a point in time needs some guidance or help in their personal and career decisions. The future of the younger generation of Africans can be improved if the older generation takes the responsibility of helping and guiding them towards the right path. Africa has all the resources needed to help motivate and inspire the younger generation to create an awareness for themselves, and to help them realize their full potentials to advance in their social, educational and economic opportunities.

SOURCE: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=178763

Ghanaian student Esi Yankah has established The Africa Mentor Network to inspire and help young Africans discover their potential.

Story by Krittiya Wongtavavimarn

It was in her warm kitchen in Atlanta where the idea of The Africa Mentor Network formed. In 2007, Esi Yankah and her family shared thoughts about the value and importance of people helping people. Right at that moment, Yankah was determined to make it happen.

It was not just chitchat, but a full commitment, she said.

“It’s my passion to help people to achieve their goals and dreams,” said Yankah, a native of Ghana and a second-year graduate student in Integrated Marketing Communication at Emerson College. “We talked about how there should be a mentor program in Ghana and Africa as a whole. A lot of young people don’t have a role model in their lives. I saw the need for a mentoring program to help gather role models and leaders together for young people.”

Yankah, 25, is the founder and president of The Africa Mentor Network (TAMN), a nonprofit organization in Ghana that aims to trigger the “can do” attitude in young African people. The organization integrates people from different backgrounds, who share a passion for Africa and its development, to help shape the lives of the younger generation of Africans through a mentoring and networking program.

Officially launched in August 2009 in Ghana, TAMN is on a mission to introduce and implement various programs, such as a speed networking roundtable where young people can meet and mingle with top business executives and other prominent figures - an event that can open doors of opportunity in young people’s lives and careers. Other programs include one-on-one mentoring, homework assistance, talent sourcing and career development, motivational speakers, and many more. The programs aim to help individuals improve and advance their social, educational, and economic opportunities.

                                     "Great event; well put together. The dynamism which shown through was refreshing & very well appreciated.....Lovely photos!"  

      - Mr Ladi Nylander, Chairman SC Johnson, 

Ghana

"The African Mentor Network has a great humanitarian mission and vision to guide the real assets of Africa, that is the YOUTH, toward success, prosperity and well-being by helping them to excel and become leaders of tomorrow."

- Mr Gurdip Hari, Managing Director, IPMC, Ghana 

Award winning American,Author

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……TO KNOW EVEN ONE LIFE HAS BREATHED EASIER BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIVED

...THIS IS TO HAVE SUCEEDED” 

 and The Africa Mentor Network and Esi Yankah have taken the first steps to success.

 - Anne Sackey, Public Relations Manager, Multichoice, Ghana

The Africa Mentor Network, (www.africamentor.org,) a youth development-oriented organisation, is launching a speed networking roundtable in Accra.

The “Speed Networking Roundtable” aims to bring together top executives of companies in Ghana with the African youth. 

Accra, July 6, GNA - Africa has enough resources to motivate its younger generation to advance and take advantage of opportunities in all fields of endeavour, the Africa Mentor Network Incorporated, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) aims at whipping up the potential of the African child has observed.

The Africa Mentor Network Incorporated is to launch on August 12, 2009 a premier networking event in Ghana dubbed: "The Speed Networking Roundtable" which would bring together top executives of companies in Ghana to listen to "wisdom and knowledge" of African child and guide him or her (child) to achieve greater heights.