By Dipo Olowookere
One of the top media personalities in Africa, Peace Hyde, has launched her skills acquisition centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
The powerful Ghanaian woman opened the non-profit organisation in the Silicon Valley of Nigeria, Yaba.
The centre, called the Aim Higher Africa (AHA) skills acquisition centre, would train unemployed youth and grassroots 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 Ms 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.
Ms 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 Harvard University.
“Our new center has a vision of helping entrepreneurial youth, 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,” she adds.
Ms Hyde was named as a powerful woman on the continent by CNN. She is presently the Head of Digital Media and Partnership for Forbes Africa.
