Clovis Ategeka
Meet Clovis, a 23-year-old native of Uganda, where poverty, famine, disease, corruption, tribal warfare and despair can be a part of everyday life. Clovis like many others his age had often felt quite powerless to challenge the status quo of his war-torn society.
He’d hoped that studying hard every day and getting a government scholarship to university would be his ticket to a better life. His family was counting on it. Yet, in the summer of 2006, as he was about to graduate, Clovis began to lose hope. He’d seen university graduates walking the streets for years looking for jobs. Would this be his fate?
VISIONFORCE ENGAGEMENT: Download Visionary Mind
Clovis Taking VisionForce 101
In 2006 at the age of 23, Clovis found an ebook online, penned by Maxwell Stein, for entrepreneurial young men. Led to Michael Skye at VisionForce, Clovis emailed him, asking for a loan to start a business. Instead, Michael gave him a free download of VisionForce Program, VF101 (insert link). Clovis downloaded the program and got to work immediately. Deeply impacted, he saw how VisionForce work could uplift and transform the entire continent of Africa.
VISIONFORCE ENGAGEMENT: Start Visionary Cell
Clovis and his class of fellow entrepreneurs at one of their first meetings
Clovis took a stand, and through the support of VisionForce allies, raised money online to start businesses, and fund VisionForce classes and workshops in Kampala.
VISIONFORCE ENGAGEMENT: Vision Cafe
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Using his VisionForce skills, Clovis inspires dozens of people from across the globe to contribute seed money for an internet cafe from which to lead his trainings and provide his students access to a global community online. One of his new internet friends from LA, Michael Blomsterberg, raises funding for 12 computers, and brings them all the way to Uganda to fill Clovis’ hip new Vision Cafe. Below is the video Mr. Blomsterberg made of his voyage to help Clovis:
Upgrading Clovis\’ Vision Cafe
OMV campaign
VISIONFORCE ENGAGEMENT: VisionForce Africa Expedition
Deeply inspired by Clovis’ stand for himself, his friends and his beloved continent by spreading entrepreneurship, Michael Skye heads a VisionForce Africa Expedition, where they meet Clovis for the first time and work with three Visionary Cells in Uganda and Kenya to birth a Visionary Entrepreneur curriculum.
Video: A video and photos of VF in Fort Portal – slide show.