Mindhatch: Youth Development Fund success story
Monday, July 06, 2015
Mmoloki Nthule
With a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Designing and a Diploma in Television (TV) and Film Production, Nthule is fully equipped with knowledge that has put him on a golden path. Like many Batswana youth, Nthule has a passion for creative ideas and he started his company in his parents’s home.
In 2012, he applied for the YDF grant and was awarded P90,000, which he says he managed to repay the 50 percent loan part of it in less than a year and half.
He is speaking of a lifetime of trust broken, a belief that their vigilance, their mephato patrols, their ancestral knowledge of the land would keep disaster at bay.That trust now lies trampled by a virus no elder remembers ever seeing. Yet, hidden in the despair is a quiet, persistent helper that must not be abandoned: Artificial Intelligence or AI.We are not talking about cold machines replacing the warmth of community effort. The farmers...