HOPin Academy

MacCarthy Mac-Gbathy after high school wanted to make a documentary video of Entrepreneurship in northern Ghana to access the need and the mindset on entrepreneurship in northern Ghana, as most of his friends also migrated from northern Ghana to the southern part of Ghana in such of their dream jobs which unfortunately were not available and these youngsters always found their lives in danger and also some tried to travel Europe illegally. Internet, innovation was not a topic in the northern Ghana youth lives daily topic. MacCarthy through this dream met another Danish guy called Anders Midtgaard who lives in Cph mistakenly on facebook in 2012 when MacCarthy was trying to reach out to the right Anders Midtgaard a teacher in Viborg High School, Denmark. MacCarthy discussed with Anders his vision to make the video documentary of entrepreneurs in northern Ghana. The two agreed to do this together. The two spent a year and half working on the storyline and script (This was all done via skype, emails, phone calls). After a year and half the story was ready for shooting in 2013. MacCarthy had no skill and experiences in professional film making, so MacCarthy had to adopt the Self-learning strategy. He spent one month learning how to use the camera, lighting, sounds and editing of video all online and reading from some film Makers. He uses Youtube and the whole power of the internet to Self-train himself for the video documentary. There was more to the PROCESS of the video than just a video. MacCarthy connected his journey of self-learning to the low entrepreneurial mindset in northern Ghana and activities, spaces, and platforms for social Entrepreneurs to grow and get the tools, human technical support and system to help young people in northern Ghana move from poverty and reduce the migration issues. Since its inception in 2013, the entrepreneurship community at HOPin Academy consists of over 1,500 Entrepreneurs within the Northern Ghana.