CULTURE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT *Promoting the three Bottom lines*
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| Atta Safia Mansoor |
Atta Safiya Mansoor is the founder, Glowing Star Empowerment Initiative and Development (GSEID), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) focused on advocacy, with respect to empowering children and individuals with special needs, and by extension the people caring for them: parents, guardians and other family and non-family members.
Growing up as a youth, there was this elderly Man in our neighborhood that I will represent here as "Grandpa”. He was exactly a Grandpa, though not very old.
Grandpa was married and his wife was still alive, strong and healthy, though, she was always on and off, hardly around. She was always on the go, visiting their children on regular basis, based on their invitations. They loved their father so much, at least in their own wisdom, and were always ready to do anything that will make him happy. However, they hardly invited him, and hardly visited him. Whenever Grandma travelled, she stayed long, at times for upwards of 9 months, and after a stint with Grandpa, she embarked on another visit. In one of such numerous visits, she stayed away for two years plus.
Whatever the challenges of life that you have faced sometime in the past, or that you are facing at the moment...
Whatever the gains, rewards or benefits that you have received in the past, or that you are presently enjoying, please, learn to look up, skywards unto the heaven,
The colours of the sky are always quite amazing and Beautifully so.
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| A Provision store |
I have the believe and strongly too, that many of the people that are given birth to in Nigeria, and that have remained in Nigeria, and those, though born in Nigeria, but left Nigeria for another country after at least living in Nigeria for 20 years or even less are conversant with the typical neighborhood business type commonly known as "Provision store" by Nigerians.
The other category of people that I have the same believe with regard to their knowledge and understanding of what a typical provision shop in Nigeria is, are those living in Nigeria, but were born outside the country, and like the first set captured in the opening paragraph, have been around for upwards of 20 years or again less.
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