VolumeThree
VisualAid
Table of Contents
Stories
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Home-Grown Hero Indira Tsengiwe……Pg. 3
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George Washington Carver………………Pg. 22
Quotes
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Greatness…………………………………..Pg. 04
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The Courage to Fight……………………..Pg. 08
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Creating……………………………………Pg. 09
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Born to Succeed…………………………...Pg. 14
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Picking Yourself Up………………………Pg. 15
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Education………………………………….Pg. 25
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No Other Motive………………………….Pg. 30
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The Work of my Hands…………………..Pg. 38
Poem
The To Do List……………………………….....Pg. 21
Special Thanks
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We Yone Child Foundation…………...…Pg. 40
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Special Thanks…………………………....Pg. 41
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Home-Grown Hero
This month’s issue of VisualAid is proud to showcase the
work, effort, innovation, and the inspirational story of
social-entrepreneur Indira Tsengiwe.
Social-Entrepreneur – people who take leadership in
solving the world’s greatest problems by being creative and
doing what they love most – helping others.
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Indira Tsengiwe
Youngpreneur Media
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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– Oprah Winfrey
Indira Tsengiwe is the leading force behind Youngpreneur
Media and the Iamyoungpreneur digital movement! What
they do is, connect local young entrepreneurs to the
people they need to reach. They do not just connect the
entrepreneurs to the people in their communities, but to
people all around the world. Here is VisualAid’s story
about Indira Tsengiwe!
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Youngpreneur Media is based in Cape
Town, South Africa, but it does not just
benefit South Africa, but the entire
continent of Africa. Youngpreneur Media
is a company without borders, without
politics, and they give only the best
uplifting content, about how these
entrepreneurs are changing the world
around them, by doing what they love.
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This is a story that began and ended with
entrepreneurship, because entrepreneurship was her only
option…
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“W
ith the world for crying for solutions. I cannot turn a
deaf ear to those cries, or blind my eyes towards their
tears. I will fight the comfort of being passive and
embrace the courage it takes to stand for those, who
cannot afford to stand for their selves.” Thus, Indira
created Youngpreneur Media.
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Indira’s strong belief that one voice can change the world,
was all she needed, the day she realized that voice could
be hers. Franz Kafka once wrote, “By believing
passionately in something that still does not exist, we
create it.”
Isha
Indira found her voice in Youngpreneur Media
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Indira uses her integrity in the business world as a way to
create the change that she wishes to see. She has chosen to
use business, as a vehicle for change, because it has
worked for so many others, like our previous HomeGrown Hero Tendekayi Katsiga.
Integrity – living up to a moral standard
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In VisualAid IssueTwo, Tendekayi Katsiga, of Botswana,
created a solar-powered hearing aid to benefit the 600
million people around the world with hearing problems,
and his company Deaftronics has sent over 3,000 children
to school with these solar-powered hearing aids.
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Creating Youngpreneur Media, was not the hard
part for Indira, the hard part was in making sure
that it was a success. Like many people that have
changed the world, Indira has had to play the
game of perseverance, that is falling down and
getting back up, and repeating it over and over
again, until you win.
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One of Indira’s first obstacles was herself. Sometimes
before a person does something, they have never done
before they get a little frightened. Again, Indira took
courage, and fought her fears. She won!
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“Yes, I am very intelligent.
I am confident.
I was born to be a success.
”
Indira fought her fears, by reminding herself of the many
things she has overcome, life, through her own personal
stories and words of encouragement.
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Not only did she encourage herself, but she got back up.
P
eople will always talk you down, if anything,
you are the person that will pick yourself up.
- Indira Tsengiwe
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The second obstacle was the company itself. The company
was beginning to fail. The list of things going wrong
seemed to never end; the website was not getting enough
views; the website did not look good enough, and Indira
ran out of money to support it.
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People have to fight for their
dreams because often times
dreams are not achieved without
one. Even while failing,
Youngpreneur Media was a
movement greater than Indira’s
comfort zone. Indira had made a
decision to create it, and now she
was even more determined to see
it through.
DREAMS – Something that you want,
that is worth fighting for.
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Indira, took some time off to reflect on the
company and its strategy, but most
importantly she began to think about how
to build herself back up. When she
returned from her break, Indira made
Youngpreneur Media stronger than ever.
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Now, Youngpreneur is a
blooming success; with a radio
show, entrepreneur
mentorship, speaking at school
events, the Iamyoungpreneur
online movement, and even a
television show. Youngpreneur
Media is clearly on the move,
and they are on the cutting
edge of greatness!
Indira’s goals for the future are BIG, from web shows
to large scale productions. Though her goals are big,
her faith that she can achieve them is even BIGGER!
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The To Do List
If I can dream it, I can do it.
Now it is time that I prove it.
The only way to do it, is to do it
I have a lot to do, so I guess, I should get moving.
by,
Xavier Mason
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George Washington Carver
“The Plant Doctor”
“He could have added fortune to fame, but caring
for neither, he found happiness and honor in being
helpful to the world.”
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George Washington Carver was born a slave. After he was
freed his masters raised him as if he was their own child.
George, would grow to become a world-renowned scientist,
teacher, inventor, botanist, and humanitarian, whose hard
work and love for humanity changed the world.
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As a child, around the early age of five, little George used
to walk alone in the woods, looking in amazement at the
beautiful plants and animals. His love for nature was so
strong ,that he would find hurt plants and animals and
often nurse them back to health.
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His uncle Moses and Aunt Sue taught George how to read
and write at an early age. When it was time for George to
attend school, he was bored because he already knew what
his teacher was teaching the class. However, when he
would take his walks through the forest, his love for
nature challenged him and made him want to learn more
about it. George then decided to get an education, and that
he would let nothing stop him, not even racism.
Education is the key to unlock the
golden door of freedom to our
people – George Washington Carver
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One of the women who helped raised George as a child,
Mariah Watkins, noticed his ambition and drive for
knowledge, the encouragement she gave him changed his
life forever, “And that’s what you must do George. You
must learn all you can, then be like Libby. Go out in the
world and give your learning back to our people. They are
starving for a little learning.”
Encouragement – to inspire with courage or
confidence
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The first college George
attended was an art school.
Originally, he did not want
to attend college to learn art,
but because it was the only
college in the area that
allowed African-Americans
to attend there, he went.
Nevertheless, George
became an accomplished
painter. Some of his
paintings can still be seen in
art exhibits in the United
States today.
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By the time George graduated from college with a Master’s
degree, he was famous throughout the United States for
his work in the fields of botany and agriculture. His
advice was looked for by Presidents, Business People and
even other scientists, including his former teachers.
Botany – The science of plants; the branch of
biology that deals with plant life
Agriculture – The science or occupation with
planting food and raising livestock for farming
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After George graduated, he decided to teach at the
Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama. When he arrived, he did
not have a laboratory to conduct his experiments, and the
University did not have enough money to build one.
George then decided to build his own laboratory out of
trash that he collected from a nearby landfill.
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“You doubtlessly know, that I come here solely
for the benefit of my people; no other motive in
view…”
At the Tuskegee Institute, George was as dedicated as any
person can be. He worked long and hard, before long his
inventions caught the attention of Presidents, foreign
governments, and businessmen; they all wanted to hire
him, even other scientists.
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As a teacher at Tuskegee University, George was equally
concerned with his student’s character development as he
was with their academic progress, because ethics and
ability complement one another. George provided his
students with these eight rules to live by:
Mabinty Kamara, Khadija, and Isatu
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The 8 Rules
1.
Be clean both inside
and outside.
2.
Who neither looks up
to the rich or down
on the poor
3.
4.
5.
Who is always
considerate of women,
children and old people.
6. Who is too brave to
lie.
Who loses, if needs
be, without
squealing.
Who wins without
bragging
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7.
Who is too generous to
cheat.
8.
Who takes their
share of the world
and lets other people
have theirs.
George taught his students the importance of morals,
because he truly believed that “It is not the style of clothes
one wears, neither the kind of automobiles one drives, nor
the amount of money one has in the bank that counts.
These mean nothing, it is simply service that measures
success.”
Morals – Doing the right things to do
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One of the problems that the Southern United States had
was they had bad soil, because the quality of the soil
would go down after each time they grew something, and
before long the soil became almost useless for farming.
George then began to find out different ways to make the
soil healthier.
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After finding out a number of ways to make the soil
healthier, George then designed a movable classroom so
that he could educate farmers living far away, about
methods of farming that would help the soil gain back
its nutrients. One of the methods George used was crop
rotation.
Crop Rotation – Switching back and forth from
their main crops of cotton to sweet potatoes or
another food crop, so that they can make food and
make the soil healthy again at the same time.
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Even though George had made a moveable classroom, to
teach farmers living far away. He also wrote 44 different
bulletins on his latest agricultural techniques, recipe
variations, and new ways to help the soil, so farmers that
he was not able to teach, could still learn what he taught
the others.
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The crops that George had recommended for the farmers
to grow, did not have much value when they were sold. To
overcome that problem, George invented hundreds of new
ways to use sweet potatoes, soybeans, peanuts, cowpeas,
and other seemingly low-value crops. From those simple
foods he made dyes ,shampoos, medicines, and even a
peanut oil massage that cured forms of the disease called
polio.
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The US Congress designated January 5, the anniversary of his
death, as George Washington Carver Recognition Day.
“I never saw anybody doing anything with his hands
that I couldn’t do with mine.” - George Washington Carver
2007, the Missouri Botanical Gardens
has a garden area named in his
honor, with a commemorative statue
and material about his work
Homework
Write your own autobiography about your life story and
what great things you want to do. Send your
autobiographies to whoever is in charge, so they can send
them to VisualAid, so the world can see.
We will put five autobiographies in the next issue of
VisualAid. Write down your goals, and what you want to
achieve, but most importantly do those things!
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Special Thanks To
• Indira Tsengiwe
• Youngpreneur Media
• Tendekayi Katsiga
• We Yone Child Foundation, Sierra Leone
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Mohamed, Abie Nanah, Kamara, Fatmata Koroma,
Isatu Sesay Kamara, Kaijatu akara
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Believe in yourself. Because I do.
Ubuntu,
Xavier Mason
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