AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Comunidad
OBJETIVOS
Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
PAL. CLAVE
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, youth unemployment, job creation
PAÍS
Liberia
CRÉDITOS
Jarius Andrew Greaves, Founder/Executive Director
Youth Network for Reform (YONER Liberia) is Liberia’s first hybrid Youth-led Development Organization already helped more than 30,000 young people. YONER Liberia has received more than US$75,000 from the US Embassy Monrovia and US Department of State’s Office for GIST and successfully implemented some entrepreneurial projects which had empowered and connected 3,000 high school and college students to science and tech entrepreneurship in Liberia
LINK
https://web.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/
Providing Liberian High School Students with 21st century Entrepreneurial Skills and tools to Increase Social economic Impact in Liberia”
The Program equips students with 21st century skills and tools to conceive new ideas for a business
Liberia National High School Entrepreneurship Competition, designed by YONER Liberia, a Legally Non-Profit Social Enterprise is a national game-changing Entrepreneurial innovation Program aims at recruiting and incubating Liberian High School Students annually focused on an in-depth entrepreneurial training program to equip them with 21st century skills and tools to conceive new ideas for a business or social innovation, and in the process building a local entrepreneurial ecosystem with our international partners. It aims to recruit, encourage, train and unleash the potentials of young people to “think like an entrepreneur” and learn state-of-the-art entrepreneurial education methods. Recruits are paired with experienced entrepreneurs who guide them through a Mentorship Institute to identify social challenges and turn those into business solutions and present their ideas to panel of judges and the best ideas receive start-up support.