Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding
- Pre-Seed
A pan-African resourcing platform set to support and bridge unemployed youth and women entrepreneurs/innovators with training, mentoring and funding to build exceptional leaders and a future workforce. Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding is an effective fundraising and community engagement tool for work enhancement in Tanzania.
Crowdfunding is an innovative alternative financial and social platform that has raised over $35 million for various project in Africa. In developing countries, especially in Africa, the increase of youth and women unemployment is huge and the space and place to raise funds for innovative project or to solve a social problem is a challenge.
Crowdfunding is the only way to alleviate unemployed youth and women entrepreneurs living in marginalized communities from poverty and employment insecurities. Crowdfunding is an effective fundraising and community engagement tool to enhance the future of work.
Our solution is to bridge and nurture pan-African youth and women entrepreneurs by supporting them with training, mentoring and funding for their innovative ideas and projects.
Our organization is well centered to be the global crowdfunding leader in nurturing and supporting the well-being of individuals and groups through an online training, mentoring and funding.
61% of Tanzanian graduates are unemployed - this is the future workforce of Tanzania. Crowdfunding is the best way to encourage and motivate leaders and entrepreneurs to employ themesleves and other for make a better and stronger 21st Century skills of lifelong learning.
The solution will be accessible to all internet and offline users. However, because innovation has given rise to fast growing forms of alternative financial markets outside the regulated traditional markets, using the internet, then Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding is the perfect is the right platform to build exceptional leaders and future workforce.
We are looking forward to becoming a global crowdfunding resourcing platform that will prioritize youth by providing innovative solutions to challenges, mentoring youth and women entrepreneurs to start-up their businesses and lastly to empower women with creative solutions to solve African challenges.
In Tanzania the number of youth and women who are available and seeking for jobs is increasing so fast. The increase of youth and women unemployment is hindering human and social sustainable development growth in Tanzania. Unemployment in Tanzania breaks socioeconomic and environmental values of Tanzanian youth and women, as a result some youth and women end up been criminals, prostitutes, beggars and even some kill themselves because of emotional and physical stress. Unemployment is a huge challenge in Tanzania and we believe crowdfunding will reduce and discard this challenge by 2030 in a sustainable manner.
Crowdfunding will solve the problem of youth and women unemployment in Tanzania by giving priority to youth, empowering women and advising entrepreneurs in their ideas and projects. The crowdfunding platform will support youth and women entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and projects with training, mentoring and funding to establish a business that will alleviate them from unemployment and poverty in Tanzania.
The crowdfunding platform will support and reduce youth and women unemployment in Tanzania by encouraging and motivating them to be creative rather than just depending waiting for the government to create ideal environments for them to do business.
The impact of Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding is to bridge the gap between unemployed youth and women globally by ensuring that youth and women are actively engaged in sustainable development projects and increase the future workforce in Tanzania.
The advancement of the internet (smartphones, portable computers and tablets) has simplified social and financial services and as a result Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding platform allow all internet users and offline users to engage on online training, mentoring and funding to build exceptional leaders and a future workforce for youth and women living in marginalized communities in Tanzania.
By tracking the enrollment or subscription of online and offline youth and women entrepreneurs.
Tracking the participation and completion course of online and offline youth and women entrepreneurs - Train and Mentor 2,500,000 online and offline youth and women entrepreneurs
By providing youth and women entrepreneurs with project managers, financial analysis and mentors who will be able to manage the projects.
Tracking the number of funded projects in our database. - Fund over 10,000 projects and ideas from youth and women entrepreneurs
Monitoring and evaluating youth and women entrepreneurs participants in the platform.
Letting the funders/sponsors and angel investors know about the progress of the funded project or idea. - Having more than 5,000,000 youth and women employed as the result of crowdfunding the projects and solving social problems.
- Adolescent
- Low-income economies (< $1005 GNI)
- Short-cycle tertiary
- Female
- Rural
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Consumer-facing software (mobile applications, cloud services)
- Management & design approaches
The solution raises awareness to the surrounding communities about the existence of innovative projects or products in market share. Crowdfunding is a unique resourcing platform set to support unemployed youth and women entrepreneurs with training, mentoring and funding using the internet to employ themselves and to build the economy of the country. Crowdfunding is an innovative social and financial technology platform that reshapes the surrounding local community and the economy of the country through fostering economic empowerment, community engagement and improving employment in a democratic and transparency way while accomplishing the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Crowdfunding is an alternative social and financial services platform established to show and engage the surrounding community/people with presented innovative ideas and projects pitched by unemployed youth and women entrepeneurs living in marginalized communities. The crowd/the surrounding community will pitch their own money without compensation and show interest to the proposed projects. Individuals who invest are looking toward products and services that are going to make a difference, and have the potential to be the next big thing.
The solution will be downloaded or accessed for free on your smartphone, computer or tablet, but the services will be charged at an affordable price. Further, the development of a mobile application that will downloaded from Google play store and Android store for all members to engage easily. This platform will bring economic empowerment, contribute to community engagement and entrepreneursship as well as advise youth and women entrepreneurs on the social and economical ethics.
- 0 (Concept)
- Non-Profit
- Tanzania
Green Livelihood for Century Development (GLCD) was founded in 2015 with aim of providing education outreach programs to school children, youth and the surrounding marginalized communities in Tanzania. GLCD focuses on uplifting and empowering people with strategic and innovative sustainable development ideas and projects.
The team management is well experienced and skilled with community engagement and entrepreneurship skills and educational knowledge. In 2016, GLCD established long-term mutual relationships with local, national and international agencies and organizations that will be base to accomplish a common goal for a sustainable future. Our partners have guaranteed us with exceptional outcomes from the online crowdfunding and education outreach programs to build exceptional leaders and entrepreneurs.
Further, we looking forward to establish and invest in crowdfunding scalability and to make the partners well responsible with marketing and raising awareness about sustainable crowdfunding.
1. Ignorance from Tanzanians and lack of funders/supporters and the community involvement.
2. Lack of backers and supporters from the surrounding communities
3. Crowdfunding is an innovative project and must be implemented as soon as possible to avoid competition
- Less than 1 year
- 6-12 months
- 12-18 months
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- Technology Access
- Financial Inclusion
- Future of Work
- Online Learning
- Supply Chain Management
We're applying at Solve because we believe and hope that the rate of employment insecurities and poverty amongst unemployed youth and women living in marginalized communities in Tanzania will be reduced and discard by 2030. Wekeza_Tanzania Crowdfunding, an online and offline platform that fills the gap between the surrounding community and talented unemployed youth and women who have the ideas and projects.
Our currents are Tanzania GET Safaris, Unites Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), GECOSO Enterprises, Environmental Reliance Consultants Limited, Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) East Africa, Tanzania National Economic Empowerment Council (NEEC) and Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
1. M-changa crowdfunding from Kenya.
2. Vodacom Tanzania
3. Airtel Tanzania
4. Tigo Tanzania

CEO & Co-Founder