Cosmopolitan Vanguard University

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

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

The Cosmopolitan Aid Foundation was by Dr. Emmanuel Yao Voado, MD. Originally the foundation was named Mawuena Foundation. On the 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 captive of destiny who will then rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the former devastations (poverty) of many generations. It will have the purpose of serving the people of third world countries and the communities assaulted by this rooted poverty in the 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 the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating 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 lie in their hands and they have the civil responsibility of learning how the 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 smile to millions of faces in 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. 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 practiced 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 Cosmopolitan University will begin with the following courses but it is important to stress that only the sky will be the beginning of our limit because as resources come into our coffers we will open more faculties.

Africa is the second-largest continent about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq. mi), after Asia, in size and population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Europe to the north. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos.
The population of Africa is estimated at 1.30 billion people as of 2018 accounting for about 16.64% of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. The median age is 19.4 years. 41% of the population is urban. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area and Nigeria is the largest by population.
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago.History:
At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. One of the world's earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of influence over other areas, until 343 BC.Climate:
Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert, or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle (rainforest) regions. In between, there is a convergence, where vegetation patterns such as Sahel and steppe dominate. Africa is the hottest continent on earth and 60% of the entire land surface consists of dry lands and deserts.Politics:
Today, Africa contains 54 sovereign countries, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Connected with the Indian Ocean, the islands of Africa are the Union of the Comoros, Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Seychelles, and Republic of Mauritius. In the Atlantic Ocean we have Republic of Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Others are Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, and Eritrea.
The vast majority of African states are republics that operate under some form of the presidential system of rule. The improved stability and economic reforms have led to a great increase in foreign investment into many African nations, mainly from China, which has spurred quick economic growth in many countries, seemingly ending decades of stagnation and decline.
Some seven African countries are in the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. If you look at countries like Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Togo – all of those markets have shown exceptional growth and real stability and with that you almost get a new investment climate for these countries. This allows you to have a new emerging middle class and with that comes a very vibrant entrepreneurship culture, businessmen or women who want access to technology and to innovate.Natural Resources:
The continent is believed to hold 90% of the world's cobalt, 90% of its platinum, 50% of its gold, 98% of its chromium, 70% of its tantalite, 64% of its manganese and one-third of its uranium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has 70% of the world's coltan, a mineral used in the production of tantalum capacitors for electronic devices such as cell phones. The DRC also has more than 30% of the world's diamond reserves. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.Economy:
From 1995 to 2005, Africa's rate of economic growth increased, averaging 5% in 2005. Some countries experienced still higher growth rates, notably Angola, Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, all of which had recently begun extracting their petroleum reserves or had expanded their oil extraction capacity.
Several African economies are among the world’s fastest growing as of 2011. As of 2013, these are some of the Africa countries growing by more than 5.0% in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These are South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Rwanda, Mozambique, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Congo, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya.
Africa really has the ideal conditions for steady economic growth. A skyrocketing population made up of predominantly younger people is the perfect recipe for a booming economy.
In 2018 we continue to see the same trend for population growth. Compared to 2017, African’s overall population has increased by more than 30 million – 1,256,268,025 in 2017 versus 1,287,920,518 in 2018.
The World Bank’s projections for the sub-Saharan Africa area. According to their 2018 projections for the continent: regional GDP growth of 3.2% (compared to 2.4% last year) is expected this year and an even greater increase of 3.5% is forecasted for 2019.
That’s why keeping an eye out for the top African countries with the fastest economic growth in 2018 is a total must for every potential investor. The abundance of natural resources and a young workforce is what has driven the economic surge on the continent in recent years.
A significant number of 2018’s top performers are non-commodity intensive economies. The list is led by Ghana, followed by Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire, with Senegal, Tanzania and Djibouti occupying the fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively. Africa has six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies this year, according to the World Bank.
The latest forecast places East African country, Ethiopia at 8.2 percent with the West African nation, Ghana leading the continent at 8.3 percent. Topping the list from the first to the tenth position are: Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Benin, Rwanda and Niger.
As the growth in Africa has been driven mainly by services and not manufacturing or agriculture, it has been growth without jobs and without reduction in poverty levels.

Born in 1971 to a Christian family of scarce resources in Tefle, Volta Region, Ghana, he always dreamed of breaking the back bone of poverty through education. At the age of 12, he received a prophecy that he would be going abroad to further his education. In 1985, at age 14, the prophecy was accomplished but not without difficulties. After taking the exams to send students to Cuba, he placed first in his district but was unlawfully replaced by the son of the most powerful politician of the district. A concerned citizen sent him to the office of President Jerry John Rawlings, when he was allowed to participate in the national test in which he became first. This event was indeed a shock to many.
He was in Cuba for 17 years, right from the junior high school to the medical school and subsequently to the postgraduate specialist course of Neurosurgery. While in Cuba as a student, he continued the brilliant academic work; he won many awards including best student in Chemistry at the Cuban National Level Quizzes for 3 consecutive years where students from 35 countries then studied. He wrote an Organic Chemistry book which was meant for the preparation of the high performance students who aspired to participate in the World Olympiad of Chemistry. He was summa cum laude (first) in all the levels of education including the medical school and the Specialty of Neurosurgery. At the end of the neurosurgical training, he wrote another book in the field of Spinal Surgery called Lumbosacral Discopathies.
When he completed the Neurosurgical course in 2001, the people of Belize found him and took him to that country as they needed Neurosurgical Services which they had never had the privilege of enjoying locally. He performed simple and complex surgeries on many people including the elite of Belize with no surgical mortality in his 5 consecutive years of practice.
In the USA, under Dr. Robert Grossman, a well-known neurosurgeon, he worked as a Clinical Research Specialist where he was invited by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons of America to present six papers in their international conferences.
He is Belizean and American citizen by naturalization. After 28 years, he has decided to come back to Africa to help his people as he has come to the convincing realization that he is more needed here than in the United States of America.

Dr. Emmanuel Voado, MD., is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon trained in Cuba. He was the medical doctor who first opened a neurosurgical service in the country of Belize. He practiced there for 5 years before going to the United States where he resided with his family for 6 years before relocating to Africa in September, 2013.
In Cuba, he was directly involved in the educational system for 17 years and impacted by their health care delivery for 11 years which can all be emulated by third world countries like Ghana who have more natural resources and foreign exchange earners than Cuba. He saw the Cuban government training thousands of students of foreign nations in different courses at the polytechnic and university levels, who then went to their home countries to contribute to their development.
He lived in Belize where he contributed to the healthcare delivery in that nation. Once in the USA, he was personally impacted by all the good things of the American system. One area is the safety network to cater for the destitute.
He saw the compassionate character of the Americans in the hospitals and churches which were the two environments he worked and worshiped and he saw how the two organizations will selflessly use their vacation days to go about doing good to the impoverished nations giving out their substance and technical knowhow.
He was deeply touched by this spirit of selflessness and all this helped to shape his world view in the subconscious level till he came to the conscious realization that a meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being prefect...It is about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and contented life. That is the motive why, by divine grace, he had been able to abandon the lucrative and most rewarding jobs in the Diaspora and now back home to give back to his people.

Most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating values in their students about the fact that, they the students, are the future community/country/world leaders and that the solution to poverty's complex root causes lie in their hands and they have the civic responsibility of learning how the 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 smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.

The inspiration came from the fact that most universities in the third world countries and the impoverished communities of the developed nations have not succeeded in instigating 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 lie in their hands and they have the civic responsibility of learning how the 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 smile to millions of faces in the entire globe.

The Universities in our present age are lagging behind the pace at which its students' creative abilities and ingenuities are evolving. The Universities are seen using the old pedagogic methods which were effective in the past in addressing the thirst of innovation of our children of the present age. The 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 the need for a university that will serve to:
• train our human resources locally to avoid "brain drain" to the developed countries.
• instil the values of selflessness, greatness and innovation into these students to unleash their unimaginable potentials.
• improve the delivery of health care in the third world countries and impoverished communities of the developed nations.
• reduce poverty.
• train our own leaders who will have "fire burning in their bones" with only one passion: transform their communities to do away with selfishness, lawlessness, dirty environments, bribery and inefficiency which are the causes of failure of 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 take care and give support to students, vulnerable children and disadvantaged people, 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 of the rich nations.
• it will help train doctors, nurses and allied health personnel, business, computer, science and education personnel, who will reduce our chronic deficit of these professionals.
• it would be our humble contribution to the positioning of our countries for success in taking them from their condition of dependable raw material producing countries to manufacturing nations.
• the different corporate bodies will receive this with good pleasure.
• it will not only create a profession for the beneficiaries but also jobs for thousands of our people.
• it will help us possess our own research institutes of the level of the first world to meet the great challenges we have with HIV, Ebola, Malaria and other conditions.
• we would have reduced the "brain drain" to the developed countries so that the third world intellectuals can contribute to the development of their countries.

Our own contribution has been in this project but we acknowledge that we cannot do this alone, so we are calling on donors of every nation to help build this project to affect millions of lives inside and outside Ghana.