#MEET Entrepreneurship for Peace Project
This is a short interview we conducted with Pinkrah Kwaku Kingsley, the founder of “Entrepreneurship for Peace Project”. If you like the concept of this idea and would like to vote for it, click HERE.
Mr. Pinkrah Kwaku Kingsley is the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer for Community and Entrepreneurial Development Initiative (CEDI Ghana); a private development company in Ghana and was the Project Manager for Centre for Tourism Research, Ghana. I am a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and is academically and professionally trained in Business and Entrepreneurship, Public Management and Civic Leadership with professional recognition and membership from accredited professional bodies all over the world. Membership includes Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum - Kumasi Hub, Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) and alumni of African Aurora Business Network (AABN) and Student in Free Enterprise (SIFE). I am currently on Association of Chartered Certified Accountant to become Chartered Accountant. Mr. Pinkrah provides vulnerable unemployed Ghanaians with entrepreneurship skills and investment opportunities to start something on their own. I assist government with social research to help in it development policies and strategies. Development areas I promote include skills and capacity building, fighting against poverty and unemployment, maintaining peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster and armed conflict. I am a public speaker who discusses development issues both on television and radio, a community advocate and a social entrepreneur. I sit with university lecturers and government officials to discuss issues of national concern. I have a lot of publications too.
- Describe your idea or project in two sentences.
Entrepreneurship for Peace Project promotes peace and democracy in Ghana. It also provides entrepreneurship training and skills, mentorship and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs, students and unemployed graduates.
- What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?
I have been empowered to create a sustainable world and also networked with inspired young leaders who are making positive impact in their community and country as a whole. I have gotten the opportunity to share and to build knowledge and skills also.
- What motivates you to be an entrepreneur?
Seeing that I am making positive impact in the lives of many and my country inspires me to be an entrepreneur.
- Imagine you have ‚supreme power’ to create and innovate: how would your world look like? What changes would you like to make in your community and/or in the world? Share your thoughts from a ‚supreme power’ and entrepreneur standpoint.
Having supreme power, my world would be a peaceful. Other changes I would like to make includes promoting entrepreneurship skills and capacity, fighting against poverty and unemployment, maintaining peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster and armed conflict.
- What would you say to potential voters who may be reading your interview?
We must all go to the coming December 7th polls to vote and believe in our electoral system. It is only through that we can have a credible and peaceful election this year’s. We are fortunate to have a free press, independent electoral commission, respect for rule of law and also have a competitive political landscape. With this, there is no reason not to have faith in our electoral system. I challenge the electoral commission to maintain the free and fair election we have been witnessing.
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