THE CRAZY ONES

THE CRAZY ONES

The earth is round and it revolves around the sun. Crazy, right? It was a few centuries ago...not anymore.

Inventing a cancer detection test out of paper. Creating a radio station out of garbage. Building an arcade out of cardboard. Crazy, right? It was a few years ago...not anymore.

Who are the ‘crazy’ ones? They are the ones who follow their hearts, the ones who dare to believe dreams are real, the ones who make the impossible, possible. They go where no one has gone before – not without fear but despite fear.

What does it take to be crazy: innovation, imagination, isolation? Is it inherent or can it be learned?

This is a revolution of crazy: the teens who don’t just point out problems and talk about ideas, they do something. Just ask 16 year-old Jack Andraka who invented a cancer detection test out of paper, or 14 year-old Kelvin Doe who created a radio station out of garbage, or, 10 year-old Caine Monroy who created an arcade out of cardboard.

It's their time, your time, our time, NOW. Get crazy, be crazy, think crazy and unlock a whole new world of possibilities. Are you crazy? TEDxTeen 2014.

WHO IS KELVIN DOE?

Kelvin Doe was born in October 26, 1996 and he was raised by his mother alone… but let us go back a while. Before Kelvin was born, his mom, Ajua Daniel, traveled with her husband and four children to Liberia to work . However, the Liberian war broke out and all of them had to escape. Ajua and her children made it back to Siera Leane but her husband didn’t make it. Ajua, then met Kelvin’s dad and lived with him until she got pregnant. Kelvin’s dad asked her for abortion and once she refused, he abandoned her.

So again, Kelvin was raised by a his mom along with his 4 other siblings in one of the poorest countries in the world, Seirra Leone. I don’t know if you think your life is tough, but I think we can safely agree that Kelvin’s life as an infant and a teenager wasn’t easy at all.

Kelvin Doe is a young inventor from Sierra Leone. At the age of 11, he started scavenging for scrap electronics parts from dump sites. He was incredibly curious about every piece of electronics he laid his hands on, so he started breaking these devices down and trying to understand how it works. With his curiosity, he taught himself how to repair radios and how to reverse-engineer and build electronic and electrical devices needed by his community.

• In 2007, at the age of 11, Kelvin started repairing his community’s radios for free.

• Soon after that, he moved on to build a 3 Channel mixer, a sound amplifier, and a microphone receiver which was all he needed to become a DJ. So he became his community’s DJ and he called himself DJ Focus (because he is able to think, focus and create smile emoticon )

• In 2010, at the age of 14, he created his own FM transmitter and used it as his community’s first radio station (keep in mind that during that time, in rural areas in Siera Leone, the radio is still the main source of entertainment).

• In 2012, at the age of 16, Kelvin, was awarded one of the top prizes in Global Minimum’s Innovate Salone 2012 and was selected to travel to the U.S. to speak at the “Meet the Young Makers” panel at the World Maker Faire 2012 in New York.

• Kelvin officially became the youngest ever “visiting practitioner” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) International Development Initiative.. He has also lectured to undergraduate engineering students at Harvard College.

We can all agree, that Kelvin is a prodigy who defied all odds and succeeded despite poverty and abandonment. Kelvin is presently continuing his high school education at Prince of Wales secondary school in Sierra Leone.

LOVE TIPS FOR THE SINGLES

LOVE TIPS FOR THE SINGLES

•    If he can’t associate with you in the public, watch it, he may be using you as a spare tyre;

•    Sex is not love and love is not sex;

•    Don’t marry out of pity, otherwise, you will end up becoming a pity;

•    Touching is not necessarily care and caring is not only by touch;

•    Don’t misbehave because you are called ‘Beautiful’, many have been deceived with the same word;

•    Don’t seduce him with your body, rather, convince him with your brilliance;

•    Stop looking for Mr Right, find Mr Left and drag him to the right;

•    Stop looking for your perfect match, you need someone to correct your weaknesses;

•    If you marry your friend, you bring back your childhood;

•    If you are a lion and you marry a lion, you are only preparing for a battle field;

•    Don’t say YES because of money, real love is priceless;

•    Physical beauty is nice, intellectual display is good but a woman without character is a no-go area;

•    If your mother is a witch and you marry a wrong wife, you are already finished;

•    Wedding is one-day while marriage is lifetime, prepare more for marriage and less for wedding;

•    Don’t use all you have to feed people on your wedding day, they will mock you if you are broke;

•    If you are dreaming to be a full house wife, then be ready to face full house problems;

•    Don’t enter into relationship when you are not ready for marriage, most long courtship end up in heartbreak;

•    If you are too cheap, you will attract cheap people; raise your standard and those who know your value will come;

•    If the right person has not come, that does not mean you are worthless; gold is hard to find;

Teniola Kehinde
 (Development)

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BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT FGM

WHAT IS FGM?

FGM is an abbreviation for Female Genital Mutilation.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it includes all procedures involving the partial or total removal of the external genitalia (reproductive part of the female body between the legs) for cultural and or non-medical reasons.

TRAINING ON FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND CUTTING

WORKSHOP TRAINING FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTHS IN OSUN STATE ON FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND CUTTING BY UNFPA AND EVA AT LEISURE SPRING HOTEL, OSOGBO, OSUN STATE ON 3RD SEPTEMBER, 2015