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NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
Brainy2y1
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Yeah, thank you. Inspiration takes most part.

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NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
Brainy2y1
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Thank you for your GREAT input.  I will definitely take your advice.

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NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
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For more details, we can have a zoom chat if you can schedule one. Thank you again for your interest.

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NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
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For more details, we can have a zoom chat if you schedule one. Thank you again for your beautiful comments.

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NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
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Thank you  Jay. I have founded a refugee secondary school this year from scratch with 32 students and by the end this next year we'll have more than 200. On same space we'll start the University courses. The team that complements me has experience in working with State and private education projects like design and technology curriculums, starting new schools in USA and around the world. Together we're developing a global curriculum (education)-2030. We're still developing the curriculum and programs this year. We've got curriculum, program and adviso... (read more)

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Joseph Lemien
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It is possible for a person to build a successful organization from scratch; it is a very rare thing. The base rate of being a "Steve Jobs" is quite low, approximately one in 7 billion. Don't forget to give credit where credit it due. The source of most of the text here is an HBR article from 2012: https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs
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Brainy
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For more details, we can have a zoom chat if you can schedule one. Thank you again for your interest.
NEW ALTRUISTIC UNIVERSITY FOR AFRICA
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Hi Bailey, thank you for your questions. I'm working with Dr. Martin Rayala , Tamas Simon  and others to develop this project to redesign not duplicate education. The Enso Circle team from USA will be visiting Uganda next year for our first public gathering and fundraiser for the project. The PPT as stated in this post is tentative not final. Starting a University is not really hard everything that has ever started took great effort. I have already refugee students. I started with a traditional secondary school this year that has 32 students. Only 5% ... (read more)

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Jay Bailey
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Small detail: If you're not currently receiving donations, you should probably take the donation button off your website for the time being, or remove its functionality. It appears to be functioning on the homepage (though not other pages.) While I didn't try to actually complete a transaction, I was able to access the Flutterwave transfer screen. It's good to know you've got existing land and are starting at a smaller scale, first 32 secondary-school students and then 200 tertiary ones.  I still do believe quite a lot more documentation is needed to properly answer the questions above, however. They aren't meant to be answered in a day. While not all the questions above need to have answers, a potential advisor/donor looking through the project should be confident you've at least thought of everything and identified gaps where they are present. I'm not saying that you have or haven't done this, but the documentation I've found doesn't yet reflect this. Having an existing high-school curriculum being taught is a great step. If that ends up working well according to measurable metrics, that should definitely be highly-placed in the site's promotional materials! That said, I do hope the project succeeds!
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For more details, we can have a zoom chat if you schedule one. Thank you again for your beautiful comments.