AfriTeens Enterpreneurs and Empowerment Network

Two profession needed: first profession, is how we make our money, the second profession, is how we invest our money. In order to have the second profession, financial literacy or education is mandatory.

INTRODUCTION:
The World War 1 generation solved its problems by passing on its expenses via government legislator to the World War II generation; the World War II generation passed its expenses on to our generation with pension reform so that the government   passes the problem rather than solving it. What are these problems? One of those problems is the problem of financial survival once a person working years is over. This is monster of all problems, because too many people expect the government to solve what is really a personal financial problem.

Afriteens will work to solve these problem of poverty in our rich land. The fascinating news is that we have come up with an unprecedented programs through power of cash-flow101–202 video games that teaches businesses and investments.

Cash flow is board games because investing and financial analysis are subjects that one cannot learn by reading. A teacher must know the difference between what can be taught and what must be learned. You can teach a child to memorize the word “bicycle” but you cannot teach a child to ride one. A child needs to learn how to ride a bicycle by doing. The games will teach in a few hours, what might take a teacher to teach in 30 years.

WHY GAMES ARE BETTER TEACHERS

We choose to use games as the means of teaching the investment skills, our games require more action than lectures in the teaching   and learning processes. A meeting point is not a preaching point,our games are meeting points. Games provide a social interaction for learning and helping someone else to learn. When it comes to investing, there are too many people trying to teach investing by preaching.  We all know that they are certain things that are not best learned by simply reading and listening. Some things require actions to be learned and games provide this elementary action step to learning.  

There is an aphorism that goes: 
“I hear and I forget”.  “I see and I remember”. “I do and I understand”. We are creating these games as learning tools to create more understanding on how to invest. The more understanding people have the more they can see the other side of the coin. 
Instead of seeing fear and doubt, the players begin to see opportunities they never saw before because their understanding increases each time they play the games.

In the industrial age, what was needed was academic and professional education. Hence, too much emphasis was placed on ‘go to school, study hard and get a high paying job and  benefits, and that your job will take good care of you, this is because what was needed in an industrial age was manpower’.
The pertinent question here is that to what extent is this industrial age relevant in the face of our present social–economic reality? It will be safe  to say that the industrial  age  ideas of going to school, study hard and have secure high paying job is no longer relevant; this is because in our country today there are too many professionals and graduates  without jobs.

In the information age, levels of education are no longer for our survival. We need to know how to survive when our working days are over and that will require financial education on a large scale. 

The  Afriteens also deliver services to the public through               seminars, Electronic communication, and website,.

“One of the most important lessons between a business person and government bureaucrats. A business person is a person who solves financial problems. If they do not solve their financial problems, they are out of business.

While a government bureaucrat cannot solve its problem, a government bureaucrat can only afford to push such problems forward”.

Just look at the internet and you will see that the world of invisible is here. The economy is invisible or is not discernible to Nigerian government because the government itself is a by-product of the industrial age.

One of the ways for us to see the future is by watching things getting too big; when this happens, look for something small or invisible to replace it. 

Dr. Fuller once predicted that ”the world would soon witness the death of the industrial age. He further opined that it might be difficult for people to see dawn of the information age simply because the change would be invisible”.

The problems are only going to get worse as more and more people grow old and need medical care they cannot afford. This is why we all need to watch how the handling of these problems unfold.
The “ AfriTeens Entrepreneurs and Empowerment Network” have solutions to all these problems as articulated here above.