TASSAA

Tanzania Students Studying Abroad Association.

TASSAA (Tanzania Students Studying Abroad Association) is a non governmental organization which was founded in August 2018, by Aloyce Gastone Mkwizu and Innocent Beda Labule with the main aim of connecting Tanzania Youth studying abroad. Our motto being redefining education, it came to our concern that the Youth population undergoing their studies abroad don’t have a platform that they can share their experience abroad for the betterment of our nation Tanzania.

Also we thought to increase the number of scholarships opportunities to students who would be eligible, by which it would increase transfer of Technology from developed countries and also increasing the number of skilled personnel which is still a setback to development in our country. By making this dream a reality, our team has seek more than 1000 full funded scholarships across the world in top ranked university which will be distributed equally among the students who will be eligible respectively. To make sure that our sweat isn’t in vain, the students have to serve the nation in all the years of their scholarship either directly or indirectly and after finishing their studies in a period of not less that 10 years. By doing so, our nation’s speed of development will double if not triple and forget some of the major or minor problems facing it. We also seek to work with the Ministry of Education hand in hand in a symbiotic relationship trying to improve the sector in one way or another since we have seen that education directly contributes to the development of a nation.

To be continued…………………………………………

 

50 STATEMENTS THAT CAN INSPIRE YOU TO BECOME AN ENTERPRENUER.

No one ever said it was easy being an entrepreneur. Whether you’re in the early stage of your start up, just secured funding for your startup or you are ready for product launch, there will always be those three components when you ask yourself if this whole entrepreneur thing is worth it. Instead of giving up and throwing-in the proverbial white towel, keep your head up and look to the following 50 quotes to inspire and motivate you during those tough patches.

1. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today, the true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” 
2. “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” 
3. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”
4. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
5. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game’s winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed.”
6. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
7. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
8. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
9. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
10. “Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
11. “There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.”
12. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
13. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
14. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” 
15. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”
16. “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
17. “Always deliver more than expected.”
18. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
19. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”
20. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
21. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
22. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
23. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
24. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
25. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
26. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
27. “It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.”
28. “If you don’t know what to do with your life, do something that saves lives. The world is full of people in need, be the part of their life that fills that need.”
29. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
30. “I hate how many people think, “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.”
31. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
32. “For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.”
33. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
34. “We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”
35. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
36. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” 
37. “The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.
38. “When you cease to dream you cease to live” 
39. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
40. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
41. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
42. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
43. “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.”
44. “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”
45. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.”
46. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
47. “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
48. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
49. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”
50. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Bonus: You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react

Use a few of these quotes for a mantra, carry a hard copy of this list in your pocket, but remember, you have to find inspiration where you can and be the inspiration for yourself.

Which one did u like? Comment below.                                                                                             #not original.

By: Aloyce Mkwizu. Blogger and Entrepreneur. 

 

Why the educated are so poor?

By: Aloyce Mkwizu

Most educated people in Africa are poor. Not just poor, but very Poor. Why?

Because 80% of the educated people in Africa earn less than 500 Usd for a salary before tax and other deductions. When the deductions are put into consideration, the net salary comes to around 350 Usd.

The net salary then suffers from loan deductions of up to 100 Usd leaving the salary at around 250 Usd. The landlord then demands for his 100 Usd and monthly shopping takes away 50 Usd leaving one with a 100 Usd. The bus will demand for 40 Usd going to and from work and relatives get another 20 Usd, Remaining 50 Usd can’t even take care of one kid in a nice private school, whole salary is gone and borrowed money starts operating. The borrowed money includes short loans and salary advances where by payment is up to 50% in interest.

The difference between poverty and prosperity is property. A prosperous person has property to his name while a poverty stricken person has no property to show. Using this understanding, therefore, most of the degree holders are poverty stricken, borrowing money to buy chicken and chips, pizza, buy expensive gadgets for show off and loaned cars to surprise their enemies.

The biggest excuse for getting paid such low amounts of money and having to sit and work for another person for 30 days in 30 years plus is THE DEGREE that one possesses and that’s all. This has made most of the degree holders very poor to poverty stricken and will die that way most likely. A degree holder does not know how to generate money unless that money is generated for the employer. A degree holder is so dependent on the salary that he can do anything to get a job but will not think of starting a business of his own to employ others. Employee is good but use it as a doorway into entrepreneurship. You are not good in business. Then build rental houses.

1.   A degree holder is not prepared to sell chips but is very happy to work in KFC, Java etc for hungry lion.

2.   A degree holder is not prepared to sell popcorn in the street but is very happy to work at Safaricom/ Airtel/ Supermarket outlet daily standing from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm going home with 100, 200 or 250 Usd per month.

3.   A degree holder is not prepared to sell second hand clothes but is very happy to be employed by an Asian selling same clothes.

4.   A degree holder is not prepared to make 100 Usd monthly doing his own business but is very happy to work at the till in a bank getting paid 400 Usd – 700 Usd while 50% of same cash go for Tax and Vat.

5.   A degree holder is not prepared to start a company and grow it in two to three years but will spend three years searching for a job.

6.   A degree holder is not prepared to sell food to students but will be happy to be reporting to a boss with no qualifications as long as he is paid 30,000 for a salary.

7.   A degree holder is so eager to get out of this country and work in another country than spend time to develop his own country.

8.   A degree holder staying in a foreign land  is very keen to condemn Africa but never contributing to the development of this country.

9.   An African degree holder would rather sweep the streets of London or USA than start a business and make money in Kenya – others work in people’s homes doing some work you can’t explain.

10. A degree holder in Africa will watch porn on his laptop but never to write a book using the same laptop to sell and make money.

11. A degree holder will blame the government for lack of jobs even after he was on government bursary for him to have his degree.

12. A degree holder will spent entire day betting rather than looking for proper way to grow their income.

13. Africa is blessed with people who have master’s degree and others are doctors in different technical fields such as IT and Engineering but all of them have failed to create a cartoon character and develop a movie from the same instead very happy to buy Tom and Jerry for their children thereby promoting America.

At the school I go to, there is a man that is of very humble background. He does not speak English but sells Coke, Fanta and Sprite at 0.35 Usd each making a profit of around 0.10 Usd on each drink. He also sells chips at 1 Usd making a profit of 0.30 Usd on each portion. Not less than 100 students buy chips and a drink every single day. This means he makes a profit of 0.40 Usd for a drink and chips and a total profit of 40 Usd per day…every single day. In ten days he makes a profit of 400 Usd, in twenty days 800 Usd and in thirty days 1200 Usd which means in a bad month he goes home with not less than 700 Usd.

The degree holder working in a bank at the till gets a salary of 50,000 every month.

Why are the degree holders poor?

Because they have decided to pride themselves in a degree and failed to think better than a man who does not have even a certificate to his name.

Degree holders spend their time liking articles on linkedIn and facebook but never have any care in the world to implement what they like. Poverty starts from the mind, a mind that just likes things but never to implement those things.

If you want to progress, throw away that degree and start thinking better than someone without a degree. Be prepared to get your hands dirty and work like an ox for your business. Your hard work will pay off.

Stop pride to eradicate poverty.

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A word to a wise man is enough.

By: Aloyce Mkwizu.

A wise man once said, “A word to a wise man is enough.” Wise men are so wise that one word can make them understand everything. Behold  fellow wise men of this world, since I also want to join this community of wise people. Here are the few things I am learning from them.

1. The best way to win an argument is by playing the loser. I just won one yesterday.
2. Life is the only test without a marking scheme.
3. Life is a journey, success is the destination, the faster the transport, the earlier you reach.
4. If you can’t laugh from the same joke again and again, why cry for the same problem again and again.
5. The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing. In risk lies opportunities.
6. Life is a game. Live it, love it, play it.
7. All winners are losers who never gave up.
8. Success is when a talent meets opportunity. That is why successful people keep preaching “do what you like to do.”
9. The only people who don’t have problems are the dead people.
10. Leadership is a philosophy, attitude and a state of mind.

Welcome to the community of wise men since for them, only a word is enough.

Thank you. #wise people #one word.

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9 things you should avoid in 2018.

2017 has gone and today is the first day in 2018 and i have got a list of the 10 things you should avoid this year so as to make the most of it. We all know that 2018 is the eraser of all our mistakes done in 2017 so don’t waste the rubber and start moving to where you are supposed to be.

1. Procrastination. Don’t avoid things that you have planned to do. Procrastination is a habit of losers. Those who procrastinated in 2017 and planning to procrastinate in 2018 have a great chance to procrastinate forever.
2. Stress. Stress kills. Stress affects your healthy. Stress is an imagination which one can control by self.
3. Negativity. Avoid being negative. Turn problems into challenges. Always be positive. You can not have a positive life in a negative mind.
4. Hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
5. Regret. Past is past. Even regret can’t change it. Focus on the present while preparing for the future.
6. Fear. The two major fears are fear of criticism and fear of death. If you avoid these two your road to success is much brighter.
7. Laziness. Work hard and become a leader, be lazy and never succeed. He who does not work shall not eat.
8. Ignorance. Martin Luther King once said “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” First learn then earn.
9. Over caution. 2018 is the year you have to take risk because the biggest risk is not taking any risk. Successful people have always been saying that you can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks. At least they have been there to give the testimony.

Welcome to 2018. Stay motivated and keep pushing and trying until you get were you deserve to be.

BY: Aloyce Mkwizu. Writer and Entrepreneur. 

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What is education?

EDUCATION.

Education,

Door to new innovation.

 

Education,

Source of information.

 

Education,

Gives me motivation,

Together with determination,

Making my life mission,

Possible without contamination.

 

Education,

With skills of communication,

Helps in propagation,

Of many people’s vision,

Of bringing resolution,

To the world’s most difficult questions.

 

Education,

Is not a limitation,

But the ability to meet life’s situation.

 

By: Aloyce Mkwizu. Poet and Writer.