Young Entrepreneurs Initiative
1. Agenda (A)promotion of education:- find the best available technology and on site mediums as well as means of fostering and promoting education on the African continent as well find mediums of integrating the African educational standards on the universal workforce market/universal educational standards.
Reducing the need for 3rd party examinations for foreign university applications by African students. (i) as part of the promotion of education agenda, YEI is also devising plans for a scholarship scheme as well a student loan assistance scheme. The scholarship scheme is intended to help young people from the rural areas with a strong educational background and talents potential who gain access to universities yet due to lack of funds and resources fail to pursue their education. To gain assistance from YEI through a scholarship scheme.
Urban area young people with the same criteria will also be considered. however, priority will be given to rural area applicants with strong educational background over urban applicants. (ii) applicants who also do not qualify for scholarships by not satisfying criteria also do have alternative of getting assistance from YEI through an application to a student’s loan scheme through a financial institution embarking on that service provision.
We will lobby for flexible payment plans as well as affordable and also moderate interest rates. (B)promotion of youth entrepreneurship:- YEI will create the foundation for youth entrepreneurship development all over Africa. YEI will develop innovative means of mobilizing as well identifying entrepreneurial youth and empowering them. (i)The YEI fund will be developed to aid in this direction.
the fund will be run in partnership with each government within the country being operated. Corporate bodies, financial institutions and stakeholders will be persuaded to contribute towards the revolving fund to assist the youth with financing of their business plans. (II)Youth Entrepreneurship Contests:- this will be contests run on 2 systems.
The national level system, and the continental level system. On the national level, contestants will be mobilized to develop their plans and face a panel of review and fierce as well rigorous checks enforced to screen their ideas and plans.3 plans will be accepted and reviewed and winning plan will be selected to represent the particular country on the continental contest which will be a huge and highly publicized as well telecast event with international viewership.
Funding will also be done through partnerships as well mobile content management profit split. (C)Youth Personal Development & Empowerment:- YEI believes success in any field of life requires mindset training and conditioning. it is based on this premise that empowerment and personal development portfolio has been attached.
Most of the personal development and mindset training will be done online. YEI is finding ways of developing an online mentoring scheme system where mentors can be put on globally and mentor as well coach young people who sign up to be mentored in any area of life.
Youth will also have access to books and tapes on personal development. .