User:Henry Agassi

Born to unwed teenage parents in a small village in Nigeria, Africa. He was adopted and raised by his grandfather, a peasant farmer with a love for education. Henry may have spent a part of his childhood living in a small village, but because of his vision, faith and determination he never gave up or surrender to life, he looked for opportunities to realize his dream. According to Henry "I was in the village physically, but my mind was in the city pursuing my dream." When he was about eight years old his grandfather gave him a start on the direction to achieving his dream when he enrolled him in a private school in the city despite their tough financial situation in the village. “Mind you, we had no car or anything to drive us to the school in the city and we didn’t know where the tuition fee was going to come from. But with faith, we wrote the entrance exam and got into the school and my grandfather made it possible for us to graduate. Some days we didn’t have the money to buy a stick of candle or Kerosene for our lantern  to use as a source of light to study  or see at night since the house that my grandfather rented a bedroom for us to stay in as we go to school  has no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water; sometimes the roof leaks when  it rained and six of us shared one bedroom and one towel.” That was just the beginning of Henry’s educational odyssey. Years later he graduated with a degree and a major in Economics from University of Windsor, Ontario Canada. Henry currently lives in Toronto and continues to pursue his dream of motivating and inspiring people to become voices of change in their lives as his grandfather did for him "I see myself as a global voice of hope, it been said "when there is hope in the future that gives you power in the present." So my mission is to give people hope by helping them build a strong sense of self (esteem) because with a strong sense of self comes a sense of purpose and with a sense of purpose comes a sense of direction. That sense of direction will give them hope in the future and will help prevent them from committing suicide which is now an epidemic. According to World Health Organization (WHO) "every 40 seconds someone is committing suicide."