IPP Executive Chairman Dr Reginald Mengi yesterday awarded 10m/- to Viana Mulokozi a student from Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam after she emerged the February winner of the ‘Nitabuni, Nitatekeleza, Nitafanikiwa’ (3Ns) Twitter competition.
Viana, currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Building
Economics in Dar es Salaam, submitted a business idea dubbed Centralized
Field Training Allocation System (CFTAS) which would assist allocation
of various university and college students to institutions for their
practical /field works.
“Through the system, all students that will be registered in CFTAS
will be helped in securing institutions and organisations to conduct
their field work,” she explained.
The CFTAS is already a registered system which plays a key role in
coordinating various institutions to offer students placements for their
field work.
Speaking at the handover event yesterday in Dar es Salaam, Dr Mengi
encouraged other youth not to give up on their dreams but remain
determined to achieving them. He also urged to treat failures as a
challenge on the road to success and to use them as motivation to work
harder.
“Do not see yourselves as failures…no one was born to be a loser
in life… give up in life is a sin,’” Dr Mengi said reminding the youth
and the general public that every great business person started from the
grass roots.
In a related development, Dr Mengi said Tanzania is rich despite
its people being poor and according to him, this is because people do
not identify available opportunities and make the most of them.
“People are failing to recognize and address the gap between the
rich country and poor people because they do not use their natural
resources to benefit themselves,” he said.
He went on to note that one of the ways of addressing such a problem is to have an eye for opportunities.
“If you fail to eye the available opportunities in the country, you
will end up being poor. But you have the right to benefit from your
country’s resources and achieve a better life,” he urged.
He also took the time to advise the youth not to seek shortcuts to
get riches but rather they should use the right and blessed ways that
would impress God, he said.
“Becoming rich through corrupt ways and other shortcuts is a curse and such riches will not last for long,” he cautioned.
A judge for the competition Dr Donath Olomi who is the Chief
Executive Officer of the Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship
Development said the competition has so far attracted 56, 900 people
three times the participation rate in January.
“This shows that there are a lot of people looking for
opportunities,” he said and advised the youth to be creative if they
want to succeed in life.
Along with the Viana, ten runners up won 1m/- each for their
business ideas. The competition, literally translated as ‘I will
Invent, Implement and Succeed’ will see six winners walk away with a
10m/- each for a period of six months - January to June 2015.
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