“It’s in your hands to make the world a better place.”
This is what Nelson Mandela said during his 90th birthday celebrations when he was appealing to all citizens to rise up, do something positive and help change Africa for the better.
I took this message personally and started LikeAfrica, a social initiative focusing on the following;
- Visually displaying all the great aspects of Africa
- Promoting social initiatives in Africa
- Highlight income generating ideas that are sustainable, as majority of Africans live in poverty.
- Grow the LikeAfrica community of Africans, currently over 40 283 likes (as of writing this article) - see demographics below;
- Empower and create 'African's', as ambassadors, that that can maintain/promote LikeAfrica's initiatives within their own African country with full support.
- Create a sustainable passive income to support ambassadors and initiatives. (Up until now LikeAfrica has been fully funded by myself)
How can Steemit users assist in building a passive income for LikeAfrica?
- Upvote this post, all steem power will be used to create passive income - that would be awesome & sustainable :-)
- Calling all steemit writers that would like to write about LikeAfrica and support our initiatives or writers that would like to donate a percentage of steem awards from their own posts.
- Other ideas welcome, please post your comments.
Visit us @ facebook.com/likeafrica
Great post and idea. From first hand experience I can say Africa is a great continent to visit with wonderfull people. In my opinion sustainable tourism is one of the ways to improve the conditions in Africa. Go and be enchanted.
Agreed, Africa is an amazing place, a hidden gem with many cultures and experiences. A really cost-effective continent to travel too. Have you visited any countries on the continent?
Yes, I have been to places like Morocco, Gambia, Senegal, Egypt and South Africa. Would like to see much more though.
Awesome - you should checkout Tanzania, really cool place with nice people. I also hear Namibia is a good one which i would like to do myself, enjoy
Which countries in Africa have you visited?
Hey Clarissa, i live in South Africa and have had the opportunity to visit Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, DRC, Mauritius and Tanzania - climbed mt Kilimanjaro too. Still many more countries to visit tho
Hi gord, I in SA too. Good luck with your likeafrica initiative and travels!!
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Apologies i edited the post and removed, it was done by mistake )
Africa needs a decentralized network like this to fight corruption checkout these guys they are taking the bull by the horns http://www.academia.edu/23706604/Bitland_White_Paper
Thx, i actually read this somewhere the other day - a good initiative. Im focusing on basics with LikeAfrica, if i can just help a couple of people in Africa to break the poverty line , then i will be super chuffed.. Pay this post forward - thx man