Kelvin Cruickshank from Ghana Builds A Car from Scratch At 18 Years Old

No matter how humble the beginnings are, great minds always end up carving their paths to success. Such is true for the likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and soon a Kelvin Cruickshank. 

 

Kelvin started creating remote-controlled prototypes at the age of 7.  After realizing his passion for building machines, he started working on building his car when he was 15. His journey was far from easy. He had his own set of challenges and faced resistance from his community, family, and even his mother. The people around him thought he was going mad; his mother mistook his passion for merely playing in the dirt. After all, who would dream of technological advances in a country where putting food on the table is already more than enough? Kelvin could not let a few hurtful words crush his metallic dreams.

 

Despite the doubt, a group of friends was there to support him and help him whenever he needed it. It only took few people who believed in him to prove a hundred people wrong.

Coming from a low-income neighborhood in Ghana with no educational background in engineering, Cruickshank started building his car with only pure talent, passion, and sheer grit. For four years, he gathered materials from junkyards and construction sites and taught himself how to build a car. At just 18, he built a fully functioning car, complete with a radio, all by himself. He is the first person to drive a car in his neighborhood and what makes it even better is that it is his creation.

 

News of Kelvin’s creation spanned continents. He was featured by the likes of Nas Daily and Drew Binsky. He was featured in BBC News, Amplify Africa, Auto Evolution, and Interesting Engineering, to name a few.

Some of his noteworthy features including on BBC

Taking his dreams, a bit further, he plans to build a car manufacturing garage to give rise to new inventions. He also looks forward to training others who want to follow in his footsteps. In this garage will rise Kelvin Mobil: his own automobile brand.

 

He has an ongoing campaign on Airfunding to reach his $2,000 goal.

https://www.airfunding.net/project/258855

May 24, 2021 Successful Crowdfunding Showcases, Crowdfunding, Crowdfunding Suggestions, Fundraising Stories, Fundraising Stories, Successful Crowdfunding Showcases 22,622 comments

Malaysian Comedian and Popular Blogger, Arwind Kumar Successfully Raised Funds to Help Families Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic

 

Arwind Kumar a popular personality in Malaysia has used Airfunding to gather donations for his charity project last year. His project aims to help those families that are greatly affected by the community lockdown imposed by the government most particularly families who lost their jobs or lost the opportunity to earn income.

He founded the #quaranTEAM charity initiative to provide a month’s worth of food supplies and basic needs to families in need. He has raised almost $ 9,000 for his project that helped vulnerable families during the lockdown.

 

Together with Airfunding, he has used his social media presence to make this initiative a success. However, many people still need help as this global pandemic has been paralyzing the economy much more to simple families who are barely making it to survive. 

As the month of Ramadan is celebrated across the world, it is encouraged to give more to charitable efforts especially to those that are vulnerable. A simple act of kindness will make a difference to another person’s life. Let this season be a beacon of hope to everyone in need.

During these trying times, the best of humanity is displayed everywhere through different means and ways. As the rise of similar projects on Airfunding has been increasing over the past few months, many people in need across the globe are benefiting from this act of kindness. Arwind has inspired more people to help one another so everyone can get through this. Airfunding is dedicated to helping everyone by everyone across all borders, beyond any language and race. Now people can seek help and provide support to almost anyone in the world.

Airfunding has over 10,000,000 supporters around the world and can be accessed in 200+ countries in almost all languages. Airfunding is free to use, anyone can register and start creating projects in less than 5 minutes. Start your fundraising project today!

May 7, 2021 Successful Crowdfunding Showcases, AirFunding Infomations, Crowdfunding, Successful Crowdfunding Showcases 55 comments

Airfunding launched its Airfunding CARES campaign in the Philippines.

As the Philippines is currently battling the after-effects of the destructive typhoons Rolly and Ulysses Airfunding, a global donation-based crowdfunding platform recently launched its company-sponsored charity drive named Airfunding Cares,  to help people affected by natural calamities and the global pandemic crisis. A recent relief effort was sent to Cagsawa, Daraga, Albay in the Philippines to help families hard hit by typhoon Rolly. Airfunding sent “Care Packs” to more than 100 families and distributed bread among young children in the streets leading to the area.

“These typhoons are devastatingly destructive, and our hearts goes out to millions of affected. Although our effort may not be enough, we are trying our best effort to bring in more help through donations from our millions of supporters across the globe”

Airfunding Cares is committed to raising $ 10,000 to help more people in the Philippines especially the Cagayan and Tuguegarao province who suffered the most because of the flooding brought about by typhoon Ulysses.

Typhoon Rolly, the strongest typhoon in the world for 2020, and typhoon Ulysses, the worst typhoon in 2020 battered the Philippines recently leaving hundreds of areas submerged in flood, thousands of people homeless, and countless are hungry. The devastation made even worst by the current pandemic.

A significant number of families lost their homes because of the flash floods and mudflows from Mayon Volcano and other mountains. The most affected families face the risk of exposure to COVID19 and other diseases due to overcrowding in evacuation centers.

There is a current shortage of food and other supplies in the Philippines. The current situation cannot be handled by the government alone as funds are depleted because of coronavirus.

There are a lot of children and families who are vulnerable that is why Airfunding is making initiatives to help provide assistance by bringing them food, basic necessities, and hygiene kit including masks and face shields. The money raised will help buy “CARE packs” which will be distributed in hard-hit areas in the Philippines.

Your small donation can help bring food and joy to their tables.

    Donate Now and spread the word and bring hope to the people in the Philippines.

    November 30, 2020 AirFunding Infomations 50 comments

    Japan-based Crowdfunding Platform, Airfunding is Now Available in the Philippines. Airfunding, a global donation-based crowdfunding platform opens its doors to Filipinos.


    Kiheitai Inc., a Tokyo-based digital company recently launched their crowdfunding site called Airfunding in the Philippines. Airfunding is a fundraising platform that specializes in small-scale projects made by individuals, groups, or local NGOs, for a personal cause, community initiative, an event, or just anything that needs funding.  It’s a keep-it-all crowdfunding platform, so project owners keep the entire amount collected even if the target hasn’t been met.

    Create a project on airfunding or start fundraising
    Create a project on Airfunding or start fundraising

    Why keep-it-all platform?  ” We believe that even a small amount of money would be a real help to project owners. That’s why we decided to make a keep-it-all platform. Our business model relies on tips from the supporter. It’s essentially just a commission but, when you support a project you can choose to tip a percentage of the amount.” – says Ryosuke Abe, CEO of Co-Founder of Kiheitai Inc., the parent group for Airfunding.

    There is help beyond borders and barriers, Airfunding has over 10,000,000 supporters around the world and can be accessed in 200+ countries. Airfunding is free to use, anyone can register and start creating projects in less than 5 minutes.

    A recent and ongoing project to help COVID-19 in Cebu city has already raised $ 2,646 as of November 5, 2020, and is still gathering more support from people all over the world. One of the most successful projects is from Wahyu Bagus Setiadi, a person living in West Sumatra, Indonesia who needs to raise funds for his Cranioplasty surgery. Up to date, he has gathered $8,652 donations to fund his surgery. Airfunding is a global donation-type crowdfunding platform that allows people not only to open projects but also to donate and to share on Social Media Networks to be able to also help.

    With the current world situation, where many people are in dire need of support, Airfunding has bridged the gap of barriers so that everyone can help everyone. Now people can seek help and provide support to almost anyone in the world.

    By opening up its doors to the Philippines, Airfunding hopes to attract more Filipinos to create more projects, whether for personal, for the community or for any cause (so that the world will see and send their support).  

    Visit their website at www.airfunding.net

    Contact Information

    Organization:     Airfunding by Kiheitai Inc.

    Address:              Matsura bldg. 5F 1-9-6 Shiba Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0014 Japan

    Phone:                 +81 03-6277-8045

    Website:              www.airfunding.net

    Email:                    info.airfunding@kiheitai.co.jp

    November 30, 2020 AirFunding Infomations 37 comments