TechTank

1. Changes in digital narrative as the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds with:
   1. Changing employment workforce type to new productivity-enhancing roles.
   2. Growing skills instability given the wave of new technology trends
   3. Insufficient digital re-skilling and up-skilling.
   4. Current strategies for addressing skills gaps by companies does not consider non-competent individuals during employment.
2. A digital Learning and Technology Ecosystem consisting of:
   1. Digital Skills Training program
   2. Research and Development program focused on community project that incorporates real-time work-based practice to produce digital inclusion services.
   3. Digital Advisory Services focused on Skills and Digital Transformation, Digital Leadership, Customer and Employee on-boarding.
3. Positive impact through:
   1. Expansion of affluence from changing educational mindset among new generation and middle class in developing economies.
   2. Increase in new roles involving complex problem solving, critical thinking, judgement and decision making capabilities.      
   3. Efficient people management, collaboration, emotional intelligence and cognitive flexibility.

Future of jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa

• According to the World Economic Forum, in Sub-Saharan Africa:
  • 55% of its human capital potential are affected compared to a global average of 65%.
  • More than 60% of its population under the age of 25 is the world’s youngest region.
  • Working-age population will increase from 370 million adults in 2010 to over 600 million in 2030.
• It is predicted that work activities are susceptible to automation:
  • 46% in Nigeria
  • 52% in Kenya
  • 41% in South Africa
• Employers across the region already identify inadequately skilled workforce as a major constraint to their businesses:
  • 6% in Nigeria
  • 30% in Kenya
  • 9% in South Africa

Skills gap in Nigeria

• Many jobs in the region are becoming more digitally inclined, leading to strong demand for hard and soft competency-based digital skills focused on design, creation, engineering and innovation. 
• For instance:
  • 99.5% skills improvement is required due to new technology and working practices.
  • 80.9% skills gap shortage by employer
  • Lack of Digital Skills Workforce Development (i.e research-based activities) for graduate and professionals to adopt real-time work experience initiatives. 

Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics

Labour Force report on underemployment and employment, Q3 2018:

• 115.5 million working age population (15-64 years)
• 90.5 million labour force
• 69.5 million employed (FT/PT), of this:

• 43.3% are Unemployment and underemployment
• 46.9% are Men, women (16-64)
• 55.4% are Young people (15-34)

Lagos State

Total of 32% (2,330,257) unemployed and underemployed persons.

To achieve digital inclusion, we carried out awareness and seminar program. This included:

• Running free consultation sessions to gather and collect information from individuals and clients.
• Setting up events in four locations in Lagos:
  • These events focused on adoption of digital skills for professionals, clients and Masterclasses introduction for individuals across varied sectors.
• Addressed digital competency skills adoption to our network of high-profile individuals, consisting of:
  • 200 high-profile network of industry leaders
  • About 300 high-profile public sector individuals, agencies and services
• Delivered conference representation on Challenges of Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa” to Joseph Boakai, former president of Liberia and Oby Ezekwesili, former Minister and Vice President of World Bank that addressed:
  • Effective human capacity development.
  • Critical awareness approach to building competent employees and workforce.
  • Future assessment of work and how to accelerate digital skills competencies.

A Digital Learning and Technology ecosystem overview

Our competency-based digital skills program isn’t just about improving internal processes but about adding new value and elementary knowledge required to solve difficult problems through learning and developmental activities.

It will address community-driven challenges by promoting, engaging and achieving digital inclusion for all through learning, research, practice, insights and thought leadership based on key trends and opportunities as a value chain for multiple market interactions with business users, consumers, students, professionals and the society.

Solution is categorized into 5 different digital skills program unit:

• Digital Leader
  • Digital Leadership skills
• Digital Management program
  • Digital Project Management
  • Digital Product Management
  • Digital Service Management
  • Digital Operations Management 
• Digital Specialization program
  • Digital Specialist
  • Digital Business Analysis
  • Digital Data Analysis
  • Commercial and procurement
• Digital Development program
  • Digital Performance Management
  • User Research, Content and Design
• Tech Management program
  • Technical Architecture
  • Cyber Security and Information Assurance
  • Quality Assurance and Testing

How it works

• Digital Skills Training, Research and Development

Processes and Technology

• Marketing and social media management
• Marketing design and development applications
• Adobe Creative Suite collection
• Hootsuite
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Internal cohort management and external CRM
  • WhatsApp
  • MailChimp email marketing
  • Slack communication software tools
  • Eventbrite event and ticketing management
  • Medium online publishing platform 

Our Digital Skills Training Program

• Agile
  • We provide and enable digital learning experiences, bridges the gap by addressing digital challenges with competency-based practice work.
  • Unlike traditional training workshops, our program focus on agile learning, exposure, experience and collaboration across socio-economic outlook. 
• Digital innovation
• Our solution solves difficult problems through learning and developmental activities to understand how and when to create opportunities at every stage of innovation through:
  • Creativity
  • Complex problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Judgement and decision making capabilities 
  • Efficiency in people management
  • Collaboration
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Cognitive flexibility
• Our digital skills training program, R&D work-based practice and Digital Advisory services emphasize the importance of future of jobs, challenges and highlights as expressed in the future of jobs, WEF:
  • Trends driving industry growth
  • Technology adoption in industry
  • Expected impact on workforce
  • Barriers to adoption of new technologies
  • Projected adaptation training providers and partners
  • Emerging job roles
  • Responses to shifting skills needs
  • Emerging skills
  • Average re-skilling needs
  • Workforce in 2018 and 2022
  • Factors determining job location decisions

• Our R&d (Value added service)
  1. We provide

          i. 2 months hands-on learning, research and practice.
      
          ii. Increased job opportunities in both public and private sector

               services.
          iii. Documented and published presentations using all digital formats.

• Machine Learning
  • Some of our digital skills program (i.e. data analysis, performance management and business analysis) focus on exploration and research-based findings through both supervised and unsupervised learning to gather data across communities for predictive analytics, deep learning and agile planning of structured and unstructured data.
• Big Data
  • Big data is at the heart of our research and development facilities. Our aim to identify, gather and collect quantitative and qualitative data within communities for predictive analysis in finding new correlations, spotting new business and digital trends. (i.e strategy for developing a healthcare professional service platform)  
• Indigenous Knowledge
  • We use both local knowledge and foreign experience to help us shape the landscape of our digital skills program, research and development. The key aim is to adopt a new strategy for learning and development across communities.
• Behavioral Design
  • This is a sub-category of our user research, content and design program. The key aim for this is to help us positively shape and influence human behavior and interactions. Within our R&D, a lot of design work goes into our marketing channels as the best form of communicating effectively with people across all sectors to drive healthy and sustainable behavioral change.
• Social Networks
  • And finally, we use various social networks to engage, connect and share real stories amongst ourselves, within our communities and on a broader scale to the global market. We are agile and believe these marketing and social media tools play an important role in reaching communities.

I believe in a Nigeria where innovation is paramount and is for everyone, where digital innovation via combination of digital skills competency, practice and inclusion drives connected people to transforming their communities and cities in order to re-shape these inequalities.

The opportunities

• Digital Adoption - Accenture
  • https://www.accenture.com/t20170203T031808_w_/us-en/acnmedia/PDF-42/Accenture-Digital-Adoption-Report.pdf  
• Connecting “The Power of Digital Skills” in Nigeria
  • https://medium.com/@lani.ogunleye/connecting-the-power-of-digital-skills-in-nigeria-aaebfe6fbdd0
• Building a Digital Technology Ecosystem in Nigeria, 2019
  • https://medium.com/@lani.ogunleye/building-a-digital-technology-ecosystem-in-nigeria-2019-5621023d4cbf

The challenges

• The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa - WEForum  http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EGW_FOJ_Africa.pdf
• Lack of sustainable opportunities for economic development: Nigerians’ Big Exodus To Canada https://www.tekedia.com/nigerians-big-exodus-to-canada/
• Nigeria Needs Digital Skills to Grow Economy, Says DBI Boss https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/12/13/nigeria-needs-digital-skills-to-grow-economy-says-dbi-boss/

• ICT experts task Nigerians on acquisition of digital skills https://guardian.ng/technology/ict-experts-task-nigerians-on-acquisition-of-digital-skills/
• A Comparative Study of Digital Competence and Response to Digital innovations by Nigerian and Korean newspaper journalists. https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/a-comparative-study-of-digital-competence-and-response-to-digital-innovations-by-korean-and-nigerian-newspaper-journalists-2165-7912-1000335.php?aid=89004

A call to future-ready digital strategies

The most globally discussed topics in capacity development is the immense potentials in people to create a digital transformed society. 

Nigerian needs to start developing a culture of DIGITAL HEROES (the ever-increasing young people, graduates and professionals) across all sectors. They are part of the larger population index and the future workforce development programs equipped to handle the immense opportunities for socio-economic growth with critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence.

As an optimistic protagonist, I urge everyone to devote their resources and join me towards achieving a better digital competent future for all.

• Current number of people been served
  • We currently have two offices:
    • Capacity of 100 people/office (Per weekdays or weekends)
  • Use of two other training center facilities
    • 200 people/cohort and total of 400 people every two months.
• Number to be served in one year
  • Community outreach
    • Fast track digital skills training to accommodate 100 – 500 people.
    • Sponsorship opportunities to training individual communities for 100 people/week
  • Institutional outreach
    • We are looking to serve at least three private universities in Lagos. This will include both current undergraduates and past graduates of the universities:
      • Redeemer’s University: 1,500 undergrad and graduates
      • Caleb and Christland Universities: 1,500 undergraduates and 1000 graduates.
      • Babcock University: 1,500 current undergraduates and graduates
  • Organization outreach
    • Currently working with clients in conjunction with their existing framework to solve the most complex digital challenges towards successful digital transformations.
    • To serve at least five clients in the following sectors
      • Banking and finance
      • Private healthcare services
      • Oil and gas
      • Technology  
• Number to be served in five years
  • Africa outreach
    • Partner and collaboration opportunities with multiple new clients and organizations outside Nigeria.
      • This could mean serving tens thousands of people.
  • Educational institutions
    • Target more public and private universities in Nigeria. A total of 1,000 people to reach from each university, such:
      • South Western University
      • Pan Atlantic University
      • Landmark University
      • Igbinedion University 

Carry out awareness and adoption strategies for seminar program by:

• Running more free consultation sessions to gather and collect information from individuals and clients.
• Setting up events in across other communities in Lagos and states in Nigeria through specialized events for:
  • Consumers
  • Financial Services & Investors
  • Local and national healthcare services
  • Information & Communication Technologies
  • Oil & Gas
  • Professional Services
• Follow-up on letters, requests and proposal activities written to our network of high-profile individuals, consisting of:
  • 200 high-profile network of industry leaders
  • About 300 high-profile public sector individuals, agencies and services

EdTech leader enabling digital inclusion

Develop metrics based on decision criteria and benchmark requirements for:

• Performance dimension e.g. growth, strength
• Measurement or index for evaluating progress e.g. sales
• Timeframe and targets to be achieved monthly, quarterly and annually

Canadian embassy in Lagos

Follow-up on digital re-skill and up-skills activities distributed to the embassy to develop amicable collaboration and/or partnership.

Develop new partnerships (Growth and Scalability) in the following areas:

• Labour unions
• Government programs
• Local educational institutions
• International educational institutions
• Academic experts
• Industry associations
• Professional services firms
• Specialized departments in any firm

PR (Media opportunities):

Improve marketing management process by scaling at all levels to cover the following:

• Product/service awareness across major cities centres in Lagos and beyond.
• Television and radio adverts, jingles and talk shows
• Improve continuous engagement on all social media platforms by securing funds to support daily, weekly and monthly advertisements

Overall cost-leadership

• Large scale training and implementation
• Tight cost and overhead control

Social Market Analysis

1. Environmental and industry analysis
2. Understanding buyer behavior
3. Market segmentation and targeting
4. Positioning decisions

Attributes and characteristics consumers and organizations, to include:

1. Cost attributes - Purchase price, operating costs and other addition business costs.
2. Performance attributes - Quality of training, dependability, functional performance, efficiency and styling.
3. Social attributes - Reputation of brand, status image, popularity with friends, popularity with family members.
4. Availability attributes - Quality of service available within locality and delivery time.
5. Demand characteristics (demand for services relative to digital innovation and career development opportunities)

• Market demographics - Geographical concentration.
• Trainer-people relationships - Buying-power based on program specialties and needs)

Shifting dynamics between technology innovation

• Threats of new entrants
• Bargaining power of others

Business forecasts for digital delivery

• Cost of acquiring new locations for awareness and scaling of existing programs
• Cost of staff overheads and distributed marketing opportunities, promotional materials, social networks, and media channels to attract people, companies, educational institutions, local government and the private sector.
• Cost of maintaining current office locations in Victoria Island and Yaba, both in Lagos. 
• Cost of accessing two other training locations for our daily usage.
• Cost of business travel expenses and cashflow for events, awareness campaigns and program distribution.

Overall cost-leadership

• Cost reductions based on experience
• Maximising our R&D services
• Products suitable for large markets

TechTank strategies

• Product-market development as a Prospectors (growth by developing new products for same market via our research and development service).
• Market development and penetration strategies: Increase market share, product usage, frequency of use, new service creation and expand markets for existing products, geographic expansion, and target new segments.
• Vertical integration: forward integration, backward integration, diversification into realised and unrealised businesses.
• Growth through aggressive pursuit of new products-markets through trade promotions and lower price range to extensively generate awareness and build primary demand.

TechTank Resource (Partnership and collaboration)

• Diversified interest with organisations that have a broader range of resources in which they can invest.
• Decision-aids based on value-based planning to assist our financial expansion and human resource scaling over the course of 2 – 5 years.

Social Market Analysis  

• Ensuring we understand factors (such as cost, value, economic cycle, inflation, income levels, culture, values, innovation, accessibility) that affect sociocultural and economic environment
• Personal and social influence using adoption process to create awareness, generate interest, perform evaluation and adoption.
• Improving strategic allocation of marketing resources to identify a homogenous segment based on profile, behavioural and psychological criteria.
• Improving decision based on Product/service, locations, pricing, promotions and process delivery.

Not applicable.

• 1 Founder/CEO: Full-time
• 1 Administrative officer/Project coordinator: Part-time
• 1 Project Manager: Part-time
• 2 Training consultant (Contractor): Part-time

CEO’s experience

The CEO is an experience practitioner, Subject Matter Expert in ICT and digital advocacy and a valued member of the MIT SMR community, with over 10 years’ experience spanning across digital and technology advisory, start-up ecosystem, housing, ecommerce, web application platform, digital health and public services.

Skills and knowledge

• Digital and Technology
  • Digital Leadership
  • Skills transformation
  • Marketing process and management
• People (Skill roles and readiness)
  • Human capital development and organizational change management
  • Career and staff training management (Agile adoption)
• Governance (Prioritization and control)
  • Business performance risk management
  • Portfolio, program and project management (Agile delivery)
• Operational strategy (Management and scaling)
  • Quality of service
  • Productivity (People and application)
  • Innovation (Reporting, analytics and business continuity)

Other experiences

• Cloud Program Lead Clckwrk - A trusted partner with Oracle, AWS and Microsoft.

• Technical Program Lead Think Tank Initiative - Mobile Skills program and Wellness services using cloud technology.

• Senior IT Manager Serco (Thameside) for Department of Justice.

• IT Program Manager London Borough of Lewisham.

• Office 365 Program Consultant Microsoft Cloud Business.

• Senior Information Analyst Hyde Housing Group.

• Web Manager Team Enterprise

Education

• MBA: Jan 2015 

Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, Scotland.

• BSc (Hons) Computing IS: Sep 2007 – May 2010

University of Goldsmiths, London.

• BSc (Hons) Chemical Engineering: Sep 1998 – Dec 2003

University of Lagos, Lagos.

• OND Architecture: 1996 - 1998

Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos.

Professional Membership

• The Chartered Institute of IT
• Nigeria Computer Society
• Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria

First Bank of Nigeria

• The Problem
  • They work in a service industry, skills and capability acquisition without the necessary attitudes is useless because at the end of the day, when their customers and stakeholders encounter them, how do they experience First Bank without the necessary skills”.
• The Solution
  • To address this and ensure standardized sales across all branches of the bank, First Bank is going the training and certification route for better performance especially in areas of retail banking, as it deals directly with customers relationship management.
• Organization Highlights
  • Skills transformation for al employees
  • Digital Leadership
• Digital, Customer and Employee Administration
• Organization Goals
  • Investing in human capital and capacity development to raise productivity of workers with upgraded skills and better education, as it empowers the workforce with capacity for new ideas and innovations to deliver on their mandate.
• Partnership Goals
• To cater for over 7,000 of their employees across 790 branches
  • We are looking to help First Bank to create, transform and map optimization of staff digital skills profile, skills assessments performance, skill gaps, team development plans and identification of skill requirements for staff selections.

Key Partners

• Government programs
• International and local educational institutions
• Professional and specialized services firms

Key Activities

1. Digital Skills Training program
2. Research and Development program focused on community project that incorporates real-time work-based practice
3. Digital Advisory Services focused on Skills and Digital Transformation, Digital Leadership, Customer and Employee on-boarding.

Key Resources

• Social and marketing management penetration activities
• Working capital to cover and run locations, overheads and travel expenses

Value Proposition

For business, government and professionals looking to re-skill and up-skill due to accelerated adoption and emerging in-demand digital skills roles, TechTank offers competency-based digital skills training in leadership, management, specialist and development program with real-time work-based research practice and advisory services to improve and enhance your career, profession and business services.

Customer Relationships

Positive impact through:

• Expansion of affluence from changing educational mindset
• Increase in new roles involving complex problem solving, critical thinking, judgement and decision making capabilities towards digital inclusion

Channels

• Workshops and seminars
• Training centers and facilities (in-house, in-class  and customized learning and training environment)
• Social media
• Media marketing (TV and radio)

Customer Segments

• Consumers (Individuals, professionals)
• Financial Services (Accountant, auditors)
• Local and national healthcare services (nurses, doctors)
• Oil & Gas (Engineers)
• Professional services (Lawyers)

Cost Structure

• Staffing
• Office locations
• Marketing and travel expenditure
• Utility expenses

Revenue Stream

• Cost per head for 2 months training program: $800 and 5 days training: $300 paid via bacs

Program benefits:

• 2 months hands-on learning, research and practice
• Increased job opportunity 

Entrepreneur Support Model

Our Digital Advisory Service will provide:

• Skills and Digital Transformation service
• Digital Leadership service
• Customer and Employee on-boarding service

Market Intermediary Model

• Digital Skills Training program consisting of digital leadership, management, specialist and development skills
• Coupled with Research and Development program as added value incentives to support real-time work-based practice on community projects.

Fee-for-Service Model

This covers the following:

• Digital leadership program at a cost of $800 per individual
• Digital management
  • A total of 5 programs at a cost of $600 - $800 per individual
• Digital specialization
  • A total of 4 programs at a cost of $600 - $800 per individual
• Digital development
  • A total of 2 programs at a cost of $600 - $800 per individual

Low-Income Client as Market Model

Based on our quantitative and qualitative research analysis carried out during our event shows, we will be offering lower cost at $150 to individuals for a 5 days training program. This will not cover the 2 months’ research-based practice work.

Cooperative Model

This model targets our high-end clients such as Canadian embassy and first bank of Nigeria to deploy the solutions to their numerous staffs across multiple locations.

Organizational Support Model

We will roll this out to:

• We have a network of contacts that covers about 300 senior public officials from ministers to senators and honourable representatives of different communities. In addition to targeting both public and privately held institutions. 
• High-end clients such as Canadian embassy and first bank of Nigeria 

To support us in tackling lack of digital skills acquisition, such as:

• Accelerated technology adoption
• Changing geography of production, distribution and value chains
• Emerging in-demand roles such as Data Analysts and Scientists, Developers, Specialists and Innovation Managers.
• Growing skills instability given the wave of new technology trends disrupting business models and changing division of labour.

Network, partnership and collaboration

• Provide us with the opportunity and platform to partner and work with some of the most promising organization in addressing these problems.
• We want to build a strong, prosperous, and inclusive communities in Nigeria through Solve’s engage and connected platform.

Solve MIT Community

Been part of the solve community is a benefit that is worth having. Knowing that our solution meets the community-driven innovation challenge faced by Nigerians due to emerging in-demand roles such as Data Analysts and Scientists and Innovation Managers is a privilege to be part of that will ignite transformation change.

We want to take part in the program, receive mentorship, receive in-kind support and strategic advice from Solve’s network to help us advance our cause toward digital inclusion and transformation in Nigeria.

Lagos, Nigeria

Our mission is to:

• Create communities of digital professional
• Improve the social economic inclusion, around critical services to make governments, corporations, and institutions more accountable, transparent, and responsive.
• Ensure all citizens can overcome barriers to civic participation and inclusion, including expanding access to information, internet, digital literacy, and services.

Not applicable

List of specific organizations that will help us accelerate our solution

• HP
• UN
• BestBuy
• Abt Associates Inc.
• Classroom Inc.
• Dubai Cares
• eBay
• General Motors Company
• Global Development Incubator
• Innovation Norway
• Johnson & Johnson
• KSF Impact
• Leap Ventures
• Merian Ventures
• MIT HK Innovation Node
• RISE
• Schmidt Futures
• Sesame Workshop
• Societe Generale
• Solvay SA
• Strada Education Network
• Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Tes Global
• THE HUS.institute
• Uber
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

List of other foundations we are interested in partnering with:

• Tanweel
• TGR Foundation
• Queen Rania Foundation
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Vodafone Americas Foundation
• The Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
• Andan foundation
• Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court
• Bertelsmann Foundation
• Atlassian Foundation International
• BMW Foundation
• Cassiopeia Foundation, INC
• Compassion International
• Enel Foundation and Strategic Studies Center
• Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
• Global HearthWorks Foundation
• Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
• Morgridge Family Foundation
• Mortimer B Zuckerman Institute
• Munich Re
• National Rongxiang Xu Foundation
• Noorcoin
• Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
• Penn Foster
• Phyllis Taylor Center for Social Innovation
• Rainwater Charitable Foundation

We are looking to partner with organization that are in the entertainment, alcohol, tobacco and fashion industries. As they are not regularly associated with educational, digital technology or EdTech actvities, it would be added value for both parties to support us either through sponsorship or financial aid towards enabling digital competency and inclusion for communities in Nigeria and beyond.

As the future workplace awaits us, we will be using AI to help us understand more about:

1. Most Important, we are using these digital skills to acquire knowledge and be competent to deal with different situations.
2. On the other hand, this will help us doing our research and development phases, by giving us the leverage to create products and services that will always be of benefit to mankind.

Others include, making sure that skills are transferable and can be adopted everywhere:

1. Skills that will help people understand robots.
2. Hot to understand things that machines can do in order to stay ahead of data analytics. 
3. Analytics, open-minded reasoning as a sought after skill.
4. qualities that may elude most powerful AI
5. empathy teamwork and how humans develop sense of humor
6. By working together with AI to help create healthcare service solutions.
7. How to offer customer value for their money
8. How and why machine cannot switch on demand, whereas humans can interact ad achieve this.

Solutions that foster prosperity and social mobility for underrepresented community members, including through STEM education, are eligible for the GM Prize on Community-Driven Innovation, made possible by General Motors. Up to $50,000 will be granted across two Solver teams within the Community-Driven Innovation Challenge.

We are part of STEM education and receiving the GM prize with help us in a number of ways:

Support underrepresented communities in Nigeria.We look toward providing our service to people from poorer background, thereby giving them a change to advance their studies.

We believe that receiving the GM prize will set up apart and further push our agenda towards digital inclusion. 

Prize money utilization:

The prize will help us fund 1000 individuals and also it will represent a source of employment contribution for 10% of the people we train. 

In addition, theses individuals will be guided through series of networking and client interaction into future employment for them. 

We would be able to sponsor people from different parts of Nigeria and ensure that they are committed to improving their standard of living.

With this prize fund, we will focus on improving the lives of unrepresented women within our communities by making sure that educate marginalized women, or those that cannot afford educational training. 

Having said this, we are aware of the challenges women and young girls go through. During one of our awareness campaigns, we noticed that a lot of women (single mothers) lack the resources to help them create a better future for their children and receiving the prize will shower a glimmer of hope to more than 1000 women and young girls. 

Elevating them from their poverty situation into opportunities that may last a life time.

We are also looking to expand to under-served areas and the prize will come in handy to help us create new locations for reaching out to these communities. Whilst providing a service to them that wont cost them a arm and leg to go to.

Not applicable 

Yes, I am.

Low skills perpetuate poverty and inequality. Our skills development program will help reduce unemployment rates in communities, raise incomes and improve standard of living.

Key issues to address includes:

Access to allow government policies to promote equity in access to education ad learning.

It will reduce early dropout rate of people entering school and not finishing due to financial challenges that they might have had.

Another main factor is cost. Whether a young adult has the resources to continue training is a strong predictor of how much education is to them. 

We also plan to create several technical and vocational education and training for these people. 

Not applicable