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Serikali Yangu/My Gov
We connect Tanzanian Youth, equip their business-market skills,educate them to apply for Government Development Fund and amplify via media.

Coding Bootcamp meets Refugee Camp
Southern New Hampshire University will bring coding bootcamps to its refugee campuses, providing pathways to apprenticeships & employment.

Youth Peacemaker Network
Training and supporting young women and men to become change makers, peace leaders, economic and social entrepreneurs in their communities.

The Kenya Sign Language Club
Integrating Kenya Sign Language into hearing primary and high schools for deaf inclusion

Developing Talents in Art for self-sustenance.
Developing and Professionalizing Talents in performing and creative arts as we embrace cultural diversity & advance entrepreneurship skills

EmpowerX: Empowering youth with skills for a better future in the digital economy
EmpowerX is a skills accelerator that trains the youth in soft, digital and business skills to connect them to global digital economy.

Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO) Digital Learning Space
We seek to facilitate the full utilization of the 30% of Government Procurement set aside for youth, women & persons with disabilities.

KIKWETU HUBS: A Community Space Providing Social Entrepreneurship Research Training, Volunteership, Start-up Finance and Incubation Support
Create employment through social entrepreneurship and enhance employability skills in youth

Somaapp: A mobile app that lists and matches East African youth with thousands of domestic and international fully funded opportunities.
We offer Fully Funded domestic and International Education Opportunities on a mobile App, an easy way to access cost-free opportunities.

Makerspace and engineering teaching laboratory for youth
Creating an open space, practical science & engineering curricula for youth to enhance locally produced products and job creation in Rwanda.

MAKE IT WITH GRAPHICS
Innovative graphics business skills for sustainable development in Uganda.

Teaching As Leadership Development for 21st Century Skills
We harness Uganda's graduate youth talent through training and coaching to unlock the potential of underserved children through education.

Hardware system development and maintenance for youth livelihood (HSDAMFYL)
More than 40 youth have been beneficiaries through skill development in hard ware programming,hard ware systems development

Resonate: engaging men in women’s economic empowerment
We will develop the soft skills of young men and young women, while creating a more tolerant environment for women in business.

Training is the key for youth Empowerment-refined plus two attachments, one on impact assessment 2016
Train youth in farming and social enterprises as a business and economically viable occupation for youth.

Bringing Electric Bajajis to Tanzania
Enabling youth drivers to take ownership of their industry and participate in a more sustainable future for public transport in Africa

Affordable building materials from waste
Creating jobs for young people in the waste value chain as well as in the construction industry using waste based building materials

Recycled Amusement parks for children that are all inclusive.
Play is an essential part of creativity and children can be engaged in creating their own playgrounds using what is around their environment

A Ready Workforce
Equip youth with employable skills and match them with market opportunities and employers.

Beyond trash: Creating income and livelihood opportunities for the most marginalised urban youth and their communities through innovation
Working with youth to create value-added, urban waste products through collaborative serial projects which promote community welfare

Girls + Agriculture Skills = Economic Freedom
We teach girls the 'how' of leveraging agriculture & life-skills to create value-added agriculture products & to become rural entrepreneurs.