Thursday, February 4, 2016

Schedule All Emails To Save Time


I have been looking for an app that will help me schedule a lot of emails as a Support System Analyst. Not until I came across Boomerang, we spent a lot of time sending and responding to emails. In 2016 this is what Boomerang can do for you with regards to emails.

Send an email later

With Boomerang, you can write an email now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time. Just write the messages as you normally would, then click the Send Later button. Use our handy calendar picker or our text box that understands language like "next Monday" to tell Boomerang when to send your message. We'll take it from there.

Remind you if you don’t hear back

There are times you need to make sure you follow up within a specific time frame after sending a message. You can select to only be reminded if nobody replies, or regardless. This way you won't let messages slip through the crack and will never forget to follow up with people.

The best follow up reminders

Want a cleaner inbox, but don't want to lose track of important messages? Use Boomerang to take messages out of your inbox until you actually need them. Just click the Boomerang button when you have an email open, and choose when you need it again. Boomerang will archive your message. At the time you choose, we'll bring it back to your inbox, marked unread, starred or even at the top of your message list.
Have you ever been out at dinner and remembered that you need to do something when you get to the office tomorrow morning? Now you can write an email while you're on the go, and have it arrive exactly when you need to be reminded - like 8AM the next morning. 


Thursday, August 20, 2015

Young African Leaders Network-Ghana Supports Essikaso Odumase Methodist Primary School On International Youth Day 2015


A group of young men and women derived from this group and who have chosen to call themselves the Young African Leaders Network-Ghana spent the International Youth Day at the Essikaso Odumase Methodist Primary School in Essikaso Odumase in the Upper West Akim District of the Eastern Region. The group met the Chiefs of the two villages, community leaders, and parents as well as staff of the school.

The school, which serves two villages, Odumase and Aburi, is located in Odumase and was started in 1936. It currently has a three-classroom block, which serves class 1 to class 6; this means that two classes occupy one classroom. The school also has a Kindergarten, which is a makeshift shed. The school has a population of 196, with 8 teachers, 4 of whom are diploma holders, 3 teacher trainees and 1 untrained teacher. The untrained teacher takes care of the Kindergarten and is paid by the community.

Problems:

1. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BLOCK.

Pupils from the two villages after class six have to move from Odumase to Essikaso for JHS, this is about a two hour walk from Odumase. This results in a lot of the pupils dropping out of school. The Ghana Education service has approved a JHS for the community on condition they provide the structures for it

2. TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS.

Although the Ghana Education Service provides these teaching and learning materials, the school stated that they would take all the help they can get. A case in point is the fact that the GES has provided them with the syllabus of each class, but these are on Compact Discs. The school does not even have a computer to be able to access the syllabus

3. HIGH RATE OF ABSENTEEISM.

The Head teacher stated that there was a high rate of absenteeism in the school and several reasons were deduced after our interactions with the parents, community leaders and the pupils, including:

a. Lack of playing materials: All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy indeed. The pupils felt school was boring and so would rather stay at home

b. Feeding: Some parents complained that since school feeding in the school was not regular, they did not have money for the pupils to buy food. They would rather ask their children to stay at home on days the children will not be fed. The pupils would rather go to the farm than school because ‘At the farm, you are fed but in school you are not’

c. Potable Drinking Water: The community has no potable source of drinking water; hence everyone in the community drinks from the stream. This results in several diseases, which keep the children at home.

Solutions:

Based on the problems of the communities, members of the network proffered the following solutions:

1. Individual members pledged to donate 2 desktop computers with a printer, 3 footballs and sports kits, Textbooks and other educational materials. These will be presented to them in the second week of September

2. The community agreed after discussions to have one farm dedicated to the school. The community agreed to provide land and hands to work on the farm for the school. The produce from the farm will be used to augment the school-feeding program. The rest of the produce from the farm will be sold and the proceeds used to support infrastructural development in the school.

The community was very grateful for the program. We will like to use this opportunity to appeal to well meaning people who can help donate items, especially teaching and learning materials to the pupils of Essikaso Odumase Methodist Primary School.

Read more at:ModernGhana

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

WORLD MERIT IN GHANA

On 28th June 2015 at the University of Cape Coast was the Launch of #WorldMeritGhana. The event introduced World Merit to Ghana hosted by the World Merit Country Office Representative from Ghana and the UK. The event brought together 12 participants of the Awareness Through Dance program (Megan's and students of Cape Coast University in a collaboration event to launch World Merit Ghana. The event was facilitated by Awareness Through Dance and was led by the group through a series of exercises to get to know each other, understand the different cultures, encourage communication and trust. The event was then moved on to a conversation around global challenges which include: Politics, Economy, Technology, Social and Environmental. The group discussed collectively the challenges we currently face both in country and globally, we discussed the reasons and share with each other an issue that is particularly important to them which they all pledge to commit themselves to solve those challenges in their various countries and communities. The group was split into groups depending on their passions and work together towards the end of the event to discuss social actions and possible small ways they can move forwards and contribute in some way to making the world a better place.
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