Kenya Acts To Support Young Entrepreneurs
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Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Uhuru Kenyatta has launched a programme aimed at supporting young entrepreneurs.
The event at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, will usher in the Global Entrepreneurship Week, which will end with a grand bash for the youth on Saturday at the Nyayo National Stadium. The concept is aimed at supporting young entrepreneurs. The event will take place in more than 60 countries.
In Kenya, it will be co-ordinated by the Sacoma Centre for business enterprises, which says it hopes to create 10,000 new jobs for the youth by the end of the one-week event.
“We are working with partners who are willing to support the youth in various ways like training, mentorship and start up capital. In the end, we hope this will enable young people to create their own businesses and employ people,” said Ms Peres Ochieng’, CEO of Sacoma.
Other events lined up for the week include business ideas competition and campaigns for new policies geared at improving business environment for young people.
The organisers expect thousands of youths from different parts of the country to participate. Mr Chris Spavin, the International Campaigns executive for the programme, is expected to jet in Friday in time for the Saturday event.
Spavin had lauded the idea as revolutionary to help the youth in developing countries take charge of their own destiny.
“It aims to inspire a movement of people and stakeholders to celebrate and engage in enterprising ideas and make them happen,” said Spavin.
The idea was first mooted in the UK, with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown acting as patron of one of the founder organisations.
