News Articles

Source: America.gov
Title: Small U.S. College Ranks Number 1 in Entrepreneurial Education
Babson College teaches students to start businesses
Date: 9/11/2008
Link: http://www.america.gov/st/econ-english/2008/September/20080911130554fjreffahcs0.3278009.html?CP.rss=true

Source: Babson Free Press
Title: A different Babson Social Experience
Date: Spring 2008
Link: http://www.babsonfreepress.org/issues/021108issue.pdf
Note: Please scroll to page 5 in this PDF.

Source: Boston Globe
Title: Babson Dean teaches business skills in Ghana
Date: 2/10/2008
Link: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/10/a_start_up_bridge_to_ghana/

Source: Babson.edu website
Title: Dean's Digest, Mission to Ghana
Date: 1/19/2008
Link: http://www3.babson.edu/ug/academics/blog/

Babson College in Ghana

As part of the Babson College MBA International Off-Shore Elective, I am going with a bunch of students to Ghana to take part in "Culture, Society and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies".

This program will link academic course work with a two-week service learning immersion experience in the cities of Takoradi and Sekondi, Ghana.

Teams of students (30 Undergrad and 6 MBA) and accompanying faculty will travel to Ghana on January 9th (return Jan 22nd) and work with local business people on business planning and development and with local high school students to help develop their entrepreneurial skills. Our Student Teams plan to teach at 12 different high-schools. We will also engage in planned cultural activities while in the country.

We need your help in order to provide our services to the students in Ghana. For example, we need Laptop Computers, Books, education CD's, DVD's, etc... The top priority item is a "laptop". The laptop does not have to be in new condition. It can be a used one from your company, husband/wife, children, friends, etc... We have already collected 8 laptops for the 12 schools. We are still desperately looking for another 5-10 laptops. If we get more, even better. We have spoken to our host in Ghana and he says that "Even if the laptop is broken, get it, our people will fix it and use it." So it is our appeal to everyone to donate their old/new laptops for this noble cause.

Also, as part of the program, we are collecting donation to sponsor some of our student trips. You can make checks payable to Babson College (to qualify as a tax deductible donation - please let me know if you need any receipts or letters for the same). Donation can also be collected on PayPal by putting my email address bshah1@babson.edu. Again, we would appreciate any form of donation that will make our trip successful and let us provide the entrepreneurial and coaching skills that are necessary for the Ghanaian students.

We hope that you see the social cause behind this effort and help us reach out to people in developing countries. We appreciate your time and consideration.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Bhavin Shah

F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Babson College
MBA Class of 2008
bshah1@babson.edu
(267) 242-2495

Donation Instructions

Requirements:

• 5-10 Laptops
• Books (Business, religion, culture, biographies, fictional, etc…)
• Educational DVD’s, CD’s
• Money ($)
• Anything else that you think is appropriate

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• If you plan to donate anything, you can hand-deliver them to:

Babson College
Office of Program Management
Olin Hall
Suite 320
231 Forest Street
Babson Park, MA – 02457

• You can also ship/mail the donations to:

Bhavin Shah
Babson College
Campus Box # 306
Babson Park, MA – 02457

• To send money,

PayPal transfers:
Visit: http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_send-money
To: bshah1@babson.edu

• Checks Payable to:

Babson College

• FaceBook Group:

Visit: http://babson.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6031699988

• Pick-up:
  

If you are around Boston area, I am willing to pick up your donation in person. You can email me at bshah1@babson.edu or call me on my cell phone (267)242-2495.