FRIDAUS MUBARAK YUSSIF'S PROFILE

Fridaus Mubarak Yussif is a business executive and seasoned entrepreneur with over 10  years’ experience in business management and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and CEO of Fri-Frans Group and several other humanitarian organizations, including the FMY Foundation and Salvest Baby Foundation, and will forever remain a proud Ghanaian by all rights and a patriotic citizen.

His companies include:

MICRO-CREDIT ENTERPRISE WITH A BIG CAP,

SALVEST BABY, NOW GHANA BABY,

FRI-FRANS LIMITED,

FRI-FRANS CONSULT,

FRI-FRANS DEVELOPMENT.

Haven received his basic education at the St. Peters’ Mission School, attended Ghana Lebanon senior secondary school for one (1) year, and then proceeded to Finland to acquire a diploma in tourism and catering service in 2009 and a bachelor's degree in technology and communication in 2011 at the Vaasa Vocational Institute and University of Vaasa, respectively. He showcased his education by doing a 1-year course in Web design and graphic production at Västra Nylands Folkhögskola (VNF).

He also read and graduated with a certificate in Contract Law and Obligations. It is quite unusual for a person with his kind of expertise and educational qualifications to also have adequate knowledge in IT and the arts.

He holds rich experience in several career fields, including hospitality, finance, information technology, and administration. He has finally established himself as an entrepreneur in his motherland, with an awareness of social responsibility to the society that raised him to these great standards, as I have attained today.

As a social entrepreneur and a philanthropist, he holds a firm belief in the individual development of the youth, their empowerment in the fields of education, entrepreneurship, and sports, and their collective commitment and responsibility to our motherland. He has taken the chance to explore all avenues that may be beneficial to our youngsters in diverse ways. He can point out with confidence that our country stands to be one of the largest and most resourceful tourism hubs in the sub-region. This places our homeland in a position we can leverage to build strong local economies for our communities. In line with this initiative, he has the intention of creating and harnessing a technical/vocational resource development center to support the production of mementos and souvenirs for the emerging tourism market.

This is among the several initiatives he has planned and begun to execute in my home constituency, Kintampo North, and continuously advocate for nationwide. He has also thought about and considered establishing a professional ground for performance for youth in sports by creating an avenue for consistent training, competition, and promotion of excellent candidates in various categories. At the rising rate of youth unemployment in Ghana, he intends to improvise a system of training, on which he is currently working, to train more of the upcoming youth in business and entrepreneurship to curb the unemployment menace as well as the negative effects it is having on education and health.

They say, "To whom much is given, much is expected." All things being equal, he has done his best to give back to society as much as he can. His track record in entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and youth empowerment is something to write home about.

In 2017, he led a team from the Salvest Baby Foundation to make a donation to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra as a social intervention initiative to relieve the financial obligation of not less than thirty pregnant and infant mothers who could not afford to meet the financial requirement to be delivered or discharged, and also presented to them baby accessories.

In 2018, he paid a visit to the Tamale general hospital to transform the Ebola emergency center into a baby ward; the discussion is still ongoing.

Similarly, in 2019, with a team made up of the Board of Directors of the UN Youth Ghana, of which he used to be chairman, I paid a courtesy call on the Nsawam District Hospital and the Zongo Health Centre, both in Nsawam, Eastern Region. The visit was in promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 3, 10, and 17, which are good health and well-being, reduced inequalities, and partnerships to achieve goals.

When Ghana seemed to be at the very peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, he pledged and contributed his quota to the fight against the disease by donating 60,000 disposable syringes and 400 pieces of medical gloves to the Nima Government Hospital, worth GHC 40,000.

He also donated hospital essentials worth GHC 360,000.00 to the Agona West Municipal Health Directorate within the same period and for a similar purpose. The items donated included 300 boxes of nose masks, 250 units of cotton wool, 7,500 tissue papers, 84,000 units of infusion sets, 27,200 units of surgical gloves, and 127,300 units of disposable syringes with needles.

On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of his company, Big Cap Micro-Credit Enterprise, he expressed his gratitude by donating cash and items to the James Fort Prisons for the rehabilitation of the prisoners who were ready to come out to society. Once again, as a sign of solidarity, support, and encouragement,

He distributed over 1000 mathematical sets and rulers to his younger siblings in 26 schools under the Ghana Education Service's Kintampo North Constituency to facilitate ease in their Basic Education Certificate Examination this year (2022) and has pledged to continue each year.

With the current high usage of information technology and the ease with which it can be used, he donated an HP desktop computer, a printer, and an amount of GH3,000 to his constituency. This would aid in the delivery of good services to members and smooth the administrative processes at the constituency level.

These and many more have been his contributions to our motherland, Ghana. This is a social responsibility we all have and should effortlessly endeavor to deliver. He intends to make much more of these donations and provide support given the circumstances where it appears prudent or needed.

He likes to travel and explore new places, read books on diverse genres, especially financial literacy and technology, and has a personal interest in motorcycling.

He is fluent in the English,Hausa,Twi,Ga, basic Finnish, and Swedish languages.

My name is Fridaus Mubarak Yussif, and I am your humble servant.