Open Dreams: Recent Episodes
Titus AB
In this episode, Muki Hoffmann, Open Dreams and Mastercard Foundation scholar shares insights on how students can go about their scholarship applications. He draws lessons from his personal experiences to shed light on aspects such as essay writing, meeting the eligibility requirements, and taking interviews.
Each year, the Aviva day is celebrated across all units of the Open Dreams community. With its origin rooted in tragedy, the founders of Open Dreams decided to truly make "lemonade from lemons". Dr. Gwanyama has been on the forefront of its implementation. In this episode of the OD podcast, she recants her thrilling experience.
In this episode, Dr. Esther talks about her work on NCDs in several African countries and how youth centric it is.
She recants some of the challenges she has experienced in the medical field and how Open Dreams has helped her through some of these challenges, while scaling her work and gaining access to further opportunities.
In this episode, Tabot Delphine shares her experience as a science pedagogist and Regional Pedagogic inspector for Chemistry in the Centre region and her engagement with using technology for distance learning .
She also outlines what her core values are and how these propelled her to her current role, elevating her to a Fullbright TEA fellow at the University of Nevada, Reno
With an MBA from Harvard Business School, Buma Blaise is one of the co-founders of Open Dreams. His passion and desire to enable low-income high achieving students in Cameroon to gain access to educational opportunities has seen him create a network of like minded individuals infused with a mission.
Being a highly respected and influential mentor, Blaise is also the founder of KappaPay, a platform with the mission of giving back to Africa by enabling black-owned businesses move money in and out of the continent, capitalizing on Global Economics and trade.
Learn more about his work in this episode.
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Extended reality is a catch-all to refer to augmented reality and virtual reality.
In this episode, Open Dreams scholar and founder of e-Mentor talks about Extended Reality and how their project is harnessing this technology to make access to education possible for students affected by the Anglophone crisis.
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School feeding programs are beneficial for the physical, mental, and psycho-social development of school-age children and adolescents, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
In this episode, we have an insightful discussion with Miki Gilbert, Open Dreams graduate scholar and mentor, and Founding President at Community Vision Group. Through his initiative, he has saved hundreds of lives in Cameroon by raising awareness about Hepatitis B, and feeding thousands of pupils in Cameroonian Primary Schools.
In Cameroon and Africa, tech has proven its relevance in addressing problems in communities. Open Dreams Scholar Tanwie Elvis and his team have decided to capitalize on this to up-skill young Cameroonians on how to build Software Solutions to problems they and others face.
In this episode, we learn about the work he is doing with his team at PremierDev
In this episode, one of Cameroon's leading tech entrepreneurs shares his experiences revolutionizing Cameroon's tourism industry using a mobile app. During our discussion he gives well curated counsel to prospective young Cameroonian entrepreneurs on how they can develop a "can do" attitude, and think outside the box