Peace Hyde opens the AHA Skills Acquisition Centre in Lagos
Named as a powerful woman on the
continent by CNN, Media Entrepreneur and Head of Digital Media and
Partnership for Forbes Africa, Peace Hyde, has opened another branch of
her innovative entrepreneurship development and skills acquisition
non-profit, Aim Higher Africa in Lagos.
Located in the Silicon Valley of
Nigeria, Yaba, The AHA skills acquisition center is designed to train
unemployed youths and grassroots entrepreneurs as well as startups
through it’s innovative Mind-set Reorientation and Design Thinking
Curriculum (MRDT) to build scalable and sustainable businesses that will
create value for their communities and also provide opportunities for
the thousands of unemployed youths in Lagos.
“Aim Higher Africa MRDT Curriculum
responds to the problem of unemployment through youth entrepreneurship,
which offers innovative solutions for economic growth among young
people. To address these critical issues, we are working with
international organizations, the private sector and development
organizations to increase and improve young people’s access to financial
services, financial literacy and entrepreneurship and employment skills
training,” says Hyde.
This year, the organization was
profiled on CNN for its impact and building over 600 businesses in West
Africa leading to some 3000 jobs for youths. Hyde who also has a
background as a senior management executive from a leading UK education
institution where she also taught as a Science teacher for 7 years,
created the MRDT curriculum along with innovation and entrepreneurship
professor, Dr. Gordon Adomdza, PHD. holder from the University of
Waterloo and a lecturer at Harvard University.
“Our new center has a vision of
helping entrepreneurial youths, build their business skills, their links
to markets and access support such as from financial services and
through mentoring. The world is bursting with opportunity; every day,
new inventions answer questions we had never thought to ask.”
For more information about Aim Higher Africa and MRDT, please visit: www.aimhigherafrica.com
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