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"It is a volunteer led, after-school digital fun club that equips children between the ages of 8-17 years with coding skills."

"We have piloted with five schools and are ready to be launched into the majority of schools in Ghana during the first quarter of 2016."

"I always dreamed of leading a team of IT professionals in creating cutting-edge solutions for Africa."

"This passion emerged when I worked for an IT firm in Accra back in 2000 as a secretary."

"I admired the IT consultants so much, especially the only lady among them."

"I remember I took home only about 10% of what the IT professionals earned at the time."

"The body has its seasons, and the youthful ones are not necessarily better than the later ones."

"I wanted to enroll on an HTML course (HTML is the standard coding language used to create webpages) but the little money I earned I used to take care of my siblings. Instead of waiting forever, I decided to teach myself any way I could."

"I got in touch with a web designer who for a small fee introduced me to the basics of HTML."

"I practiced any time I got the chance and within weeks, I was designing my own websites."

"With more confidence in my skills, I took out a classified ad promoting myself as a virtual assistant and took on four clients, including one web-based telecom company in the USA."

"In 2004 I was able to resign as a secretary, rent an office and eventually hire people to provide additional support."

"I was so grateful and so happy with my progress that I wanted to do something to empower others with the kind of skill set that got me this far."

"I registered the NGO, Healthy Career Initiative in 2007 with the objective of empowering students with the skill set they will need to thrive in the 21st century but unfortunately it remained relatively inactive due to my heavy workload."

"I got married and had children and things slowed down even further as I realized I needed to work from home and be there for my kids when they needed me."

"One day, when my boy was 5, I was searching the internet for a simple programming platform to start teaching him and came across a blog about kids learning to code in the UK and the kind of things they were building that triggered my enthusiasm for my inactive NGO."

"I wanted Ghanaian kids to create the same exciting digital stuff kids in the developed world were creating."

"Things like interactive stories, websites, games and animation."

"I put plans together and Ghana Code Club was born."

"The best part of my job is being in the classroom with the kids feeling empowered that they have created things that can be used by another person from any part of the world."

"The smiles on their faces make me feel wonderful and hopeful that these kids will go on to develop the digital footprint of Ghana and Africa and impact the world as a whole."

"Technology is the catalyst to development in every country so Ghana also needs to emphasise its importance and steer resources towards technological advancement."

"Every home should have access to a computer and the internet."

"Then if kids can get trained in the right skills, the country will breed more entrepreneurs, innovators and problem solvers who are needed in every ministry to develop logical thinking."

"We aim to launch into 20 or more schools within the first quarter of 2016 reaching not less than 20,000 children."

"We also hope to organise an inter school competition to see the impact of creativity, problem-solving and collaborative skills within our code club members."

"We then hope to establish a training centre that will assist deprived children who in one way or another wish to participate in our code clubs but are unable to."

"We are always looking for support and donations to carry out our plans successfully!"

"You're nothing to them, you and all you stand for. Your world doesn't mean a thing. They won't even try to understand it. They'll be tired, man. Tired and cold. And they'll build a fire with your big wooden door. And they'll crap all over your terrace, and wipe their hands on your shelves full of books. And they'll spit out your wine, and eat with their fingers from all that nice pewter hanging inside on your wall. Then they'll squat on their heels and watch your easy chairs go up in smoke. And they'll use your fancy bed sheets to pretty themselves up in. All your things will lose their meaning."

"Then they'll ask for independence. They'll damn well demand it. And why not? The UN has delegates today from a hundred countries that have no excuse for existing."

"To threaten the West with a bloodless invasion!"

"Dio possessed a belligerent intellect that thrived on springs of racial hatred barely below the surface, and far more intense than anyone imagined."

"Its members were veterans in the rat race to gnaw at the UN cheese"

"when you consider the model severity of the Australian Immigration Act, encouraging, as it does, the entry of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, English, French—in short, all those are white of skin and Christian of soul, while relentlessly excluding any trace of yellow, black, or brown"

"Enough to demoralize those men and women who considered themselves good law-abiding citizens; in other words, almost the entire population."

"Friendliness applied to teaching has a relaxing effect on teachers, as it makes them feel magically irresponsible: authority is tiring and must be constantly reaffirmed, while this decadent form of equality requires no effort."

"there was only one solution. Every Indian knew it well. With no cow droppings at hand, our seagoing horde would have to burn its own, prepared by a tried and true peasant technique known for three thousand years. And so, the decks became weird workshops, where hands deft at molding this curious coal—children for the most part, down on their haunches—took each new batch of turds, kneaded and shaped them, pressing out the liquid, and rolling them out into little round brackets, like the kind we used to burn in our stoves not very long ago. The tropical sun did the rest, heating the sheet-metal decks, where the crowd had left great spaces, like drying racks, with thousands of the putrid mounds spread out to bake and harden into fuel."

"We'll shoot without giving it a second thought. In this high-minded racial war, all the rage these days, nonviolence is the weapon of the masses. Violence is all the attacked minority has to fight back with. Yes, we'll defend ourselves. And yes, we'll use violence."

"Magnificent antiracist pastry, filled with the cream of human kindness, spread with a sweet egalitarian frosting, sprinkled with bits of vanilla remorse, and on top, this graceful inscription, in flowery caramel arabesques: "Mea Culpa!" A cake to tug at the heart strings, if there ever was one. And everyone wanted to get the first bite..."

"nothing on earth now could stem the power of weakness triumphant."

"I hope there are lots of Zulus in London," the President muttered. "There's something I'd like to see! A Zulu, citizen of Great Britain!"

"Apocalypse or birth? A new breed of man, a new social order? Or the death of all bearable life as we know it? Dio couldn't give less of a damn. He admits it. "... human ideals, above governments, and economic systems, and religions, and races ..." Yes, that's what he said. But what does it really mean? Not a blessed thing, really. There's nothing at all above those things. And absolute void, like the splitting of the atom, or a great empty nothingness, let loose all at once. A show too good to miss."

"What else could you expect from a Brazilian? The Cardinals wanted a new-style pope. For the universal Church, they said. Well, they certainly got one!"

"In the Middle Ages they would have kicked a few cardinals in the rump, elected a new pope, and declared this one an antipope, just like that. Which is just what I'm doing in my own heart of hearts. Besides, it's all nothing but words."

"this one from the UN, where they've just passed a unanimous resolution to abolish the concept of race. Which means ours, you can bet."

"cowardice towards the weak is cowardice at its most subtle, and, indeed, its most deadly. And so, they all hoped that the army, with no such scruples, would come to the rescue. Though clearly they had little faith, I'm afraid, since they all turned and ran. At the first signs of flight, my duty demanded that I ordered the army to take up positions along the coast. The result is that now, should we only choose to do so, we are perfectly able to repulse the invasion and destroy the invader. Assuming, that is, that we are willing to murder—with or without regret—a million helpless wretches."

""Look," Dragasès replied, "we may as well clean out all our traitors right now, even the ones who don't know that they are, who could screw us to the wall, good intentions not withstanding. Last-minute traitors are the worst kind of all."

"The brainwashing will last for a hundred years. A thousand."

"At Central Park the black tide is rising. Twenty-three floors in a single hour."

"The Queen receives the leaders of the "Paks," stands aghast at one of their non-negotiable demands. Namely, that her younger son marry a Pakistani. To destroy a symbol or to make it their own? We could argue forever ..."