Cosmopolitan Vanguard University, under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, is a duly registered non-governmental, non-profit organisation that strives to provide the greatest asset, which is education, to the impoverished cosmopolitan youth. It aims to instil selflessness, greatness, and innovation in them so that they can also contribute to their communities or serve any remote community in the world where there is a need to tackle poverty's complex root causes.

The universities in our present age are lagging behind the pace at which their students' creative abilities and ingenuities are evolving. The universities are seen using old pedagogic methods that were effective in the past but are now inadequate in addressing the thirst for innovation among our children of the present age. Vanguard University will strive to address that thirst by offering a creative syllabus that is tailored to the current evolving and revolutionary needs of our children.

The Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was founded by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD. Originally, the foundation was named Mawuena Foundation. On 16th January 2015, the foundation's name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. It was originally established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February 2014 at the Registrar-General's Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. In the future, as part of the vision, we will have sister charities registered in other countries.

Our mission is to deliver the captives of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations. It will serve the people of third-world countries and the communities afflicted by entrenched poverty in developed nations. It will train professionals in a wide variety of courses, with an emphasis on research, so that they can bring about the changes that their impoverished communities need.

The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in third-world countries and the impoverished communities of developed nations have not succeeded in instilling values in their students about the fact that they, the students, are the future world leaders. The solution to poverty's complex root causes lies in their hands, and they have the civil responsibility of learning how successful individuals and nations achieved their success. This knowledge will enable them to selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smiles to millions of faces around the globe.

The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD, the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will oversee the day-to-day administration of the university. He is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practised there for 5 years and worked in the United States of America for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September 2013. He is working diligently on the cure of Spinal Cord Injuries.

The Cosmopolitan Vanguard University will be located in Akuse in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The university will begin with the following courses, but it is important to stress that only the sky will be the beginning of our limit. As resources come into our coffers, we will open more faculties.

Cosmopolitan Vanguard University, under the umbrella of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, is a duly registered non-governmental, non-profit organisation that strives to assure the greatest asset, which is education, to the impoverished cosmopolitan youth, instilling the seeds of selflessness, greatness, and innovation in them so that they can also go and do likewise in their communities or serve any remote community in the world where there is a need to tackle poverty's complex root causes.

The universities in our present age are lagging behind the pace at which their students' creative abilities and ingenuities are evolving. The universities are seen using old pedagogic methods which were effective in the past in addressing the thirst for innovation of our children of the present age. Vanguard University will strive to address that thirst that our children of the present age have for a creative syllabus that is dynamically tailored to their current evolving and revolutionary needs.

The Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was founded by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD. Originally, the foundation was named Mawuena Foundation. On 16th January 2015, the foundation's name was changed from Mawuena Foundation to Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation. It was originally established in Ghana as a charitable Trust Deed, duly registered on 21st February 2014 in the Registrar-General's Department in Accra with the registration number CG089012014. In the future, as part of the vision, we will have sister charities registered in other countries.

We pursue breaking the backbone of generational poverty where the captives of destiny, the marginalised, shall become the frontliners.

It will have the purpose of serving the people of third world countries and the communities assaulted by this rooted poverty in developed nations.

It will train professionals in a wide variety and number of courses, laying emphasis on research, so that they can impart the changes that their impoverished communities need.

The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in third world countries and the impoverished communities of developed nations have not succeeded in instilling values in their students about the fact that they, the students, are the future world leaders and that the solution to poverty's complex root causes lies in their hands. They have the civic responsibility of learning how successful individuals and nations made it to stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smiles to millions of faces across the entire globe.

The Board of Trustees of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation, led by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD., the Founder, will select the Management Committee that will see to the day-to-day administration of the university.

The headquarters of the Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation will be located in Bundase in the Greater Accra Region.

Most universities in third world countries and impoverished communities in developed nations have not succeeded in instilling values in their students about the fact that they, the students, are the future community, country, and world leaders. The solution to poverty's complex root causes lies in their hands, and they have the civic responsibility to learn how successful individuals and nations achieved stardom so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smiles to millions of faces around the globe.

The tendency to send our young ones abroad to study so that they can gain a different worldview and then creatively apply it to transform our communities and nations has proven to be a failure. The majority of graduates do not return but stay in the host countries or move to another in search of greener pastures ("brain drain"). When they do return, they often get absorbed by the status quo and do nothing to change the paradigm.

In third world countries, the lack of foresight for the future of children on the part of their parents (who are often ill-educated) and inadequate counselling of both parents and students by educational counsellors at various pre-university and university levels are the ultimate causes of students pursuing the wrong courses for the wrong reasons. For example, a medical doctor who could have been a good lawyer or someone studying arts who could have been a good science student, simply because someone discouraged them, leading to a loss of self-esteem and self-confidence.

The universities in our present age are lagging behind the pace at which their students' creative abilities and ingenuities are evolving. The universities are seen using old pedagogic methods that were effective in the past but are inadequate in addressing the thirst for innovation among today's children. Vanguard University will strive to address that thirst with a creative syllabus that is dynamically tailored to their current evolving and revolutionary needs.

The theoretical model of training in the universities of third world countries, without practical application to the real world and the lack of conditions for both inspiration and funding to innovate, is the fundamental paralysing force to development.

The job market does not closely relate to the universities to determine which careers are most needed, so that when students graduate, they can readily find employment. This is why it is so difficult for polytechnic and university graduates to find jobs in the third world, especially in Africa.

The unemployment rate of graduates in Africa is high. Most students pursue arts, with few studying science, leading to a significant deficit of scientists to solve our problems. Consequently, we have to import them at great expense, making our national products too expensive to compete with those from China.

In the medical field in Africa, leading government and private hospitals are not fully equipped. In areas where they are well-equipped, maintenance of equipment is problematic because we have to go to South Africa or developed nations for specialist bioengineers to fix them, as we lack local expertise. We also lack certain specialties and medical equipment because strategic plans for training human resources, especially general medical practitioners, specialists, nurses, and other allied health workers, have not yet yielded the expected outcomes. A sustained plan for training the adequate quality and quantity of the new generation to take over when the current generation is gone does not seem to be yielding the expected results.

Efficient hospitals in the developed world have a strong reliance on ICT because networking is essential for practising telemedicine and taking advantage of technological advancements. We need computer programmers and software staff to develop the software required for various purposes in hospitals, as well as website developers, graphic designers, hardware specialists, and smartphone application developers. In Africa today, except for South Africa, this is non-existent.

Having all our healthcare needs met locally is the only way to stop the affluent from seeking better healthcare abroad, especially in emergencies that do not allow sufficient time for transfer outside the country. We lack local experts in the diagnosis and treatment of brain aneurysms, an emergency condition that continues to claim many lives. Similarly, patients needing complex spinal surgery to avoid or improve paralysis due to spinal cord injury face a dire situation because, whether they can pay or not, there is no amount of money that can save their lives since emergency treatment is not available locally.

As we embark on this everlasting journey to bring change to the most abandoned segments of our nations—the voiceless, the destitute, and the helpless—we will face tremendous challenges in human resources. If we do not have a plan to leverage our foreign helpers to train our local human resources, we can never become self-sustainable. If, while doing this, we help train students from impoverished communities worldwide and send them to do likewise, we will be on the right path to eradicating poverty in our communities. We need human resources for the hospital project, where specific specialists are lacking. We will need significant help from foreigners to run our school for the physically disabled. We will have a Research Institute that will require various scientists trained at our university. This university is the strategic answer to these needs and other human resource needs in our country and other impoverished nations.

The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in third world countries and impoverished communities in developed nations have not succeeded in instilling values in their students about the fact that they, the students, are the future world leaders and that the solution to poverty's complex root causes lies in their hands. They have the civic responsibility of learning how successful individuals and nations achieved greatness so that they can also selflessly strive for the elimination of the curse of poverty in our communities, thus bringing smiles to millions of faces around the globe.

The universities in our present age are lagging behind the pace at which their students' creative abilities and ingenuities are evolving. The universities are seen using old pedagogic methods which were effective in the past in addressing the thirst for innovation of our children of the present age. Vanguard University will strive to address that thirst that our children of the present age have for a creative syllabus that is dynamically tailored to their current evolving and revolutionary needs.

Therefore, there is a need for a university that will serve to:

• Train our human resources locally to avoid "brain drain" to developed countries.
• Instill the values of selflessness, greatness, and innovation into these students to unleash their unimaginable potential.
• Improve the delivery of health care in third world countries and impoverished communities in developed nations.
• Reduce poverty.
• Train our own leaders who will have "fire burning in their bones" with only one passion: to transform their communities and do away with selfishness, lawlessness, dirty environments, bribery, and inefficiency, which are the causes of failure in our third world countries and communities.

We are grounded on the values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence (I CARE) principle.

We welcome and respect ongoing international initiatives and national policies to care for and support students, vulnerable children, and disadvantaged people, and to fight poverty, ignorance, and diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, malaria, immunisable diseases, and AIDS. Our activities will be in union and collaboration with other stakeholders.

With your collaboration, we both seek to meet the expectation that:

• It will enhance access to quality education tailored to the needs of our third world countries and impoverished communities in wealthy nations.
• It will help train doctors, nurses, allied health personnel, business professionals, computer scientists, and educators, thereby reducing our chronic deficit of these professionals.
• It will be our humble contribution to positioning our countries for success, transforming them from raw material producers to manufacturing nations.
• Different corporate bodies will receive this with good pleasure.
• It will not only create professions for the beneficiaries but also jobs for thousands of our people.
• It will help us establish research institutes of a first-world standard to meet the great challenges we face with HIV, Ebola, malaria, and other conditions.
• We will have reduced the "brain drain" to developed countries, enabling third world intellectuals to contribute to the development of their own countries.