Remember her, 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, reports ITREALMS.
Located in the Silicon Valley of Nigeria, Yaba in Lagos
State, The AHA skills acquisition center is designed to train unemployed youth
and grassroot entrepreneurs as well as startups through its 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 youth 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 youth. 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, from the University of Waterloo
and a lecturer at Harvard University.
Nenye Dom/GEE
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