3.5 Feeding Minds

Ousman Umar is a former child migrant who spent four years travelling on foot from Ghana to Libya to Spain. In 2012 he founded an NGO named NASCO Feeding Minds, which aims to create a network of IT centers with computer classrooms in rural Ghana in order to familiarize students with digital tools and facilitate their access to information. He has recently launched a social enterprise named NASCO Tech: Code Made in Africa, which aims to provide job opportunities for young IT graduates. He is also a writer and has published an autobiography entitled “Journey to the Land of the Whites”, where he shares his life story. 

He speaks to us about: 

• His migration journey
• Racism and anti-immigration sentiments in Europe
• Addressing the root causes of migration 
• The importance of education and job opportunities 
• Exploitation and underdevelopment in Africa 
• Being a leader and starting an NGO
• Horizontal vs. vertical aid 
• Nature as our biggest teacher - and much more!

He joins us from Barcelona, Spain.