Introducing the Jobberman Soft Skills Training Dear I-Youth Fellow, IITA in partnership with Jobberman Nigeria is offering our I-Youth project beneficiaries an opportunity to enroll for FREE Soft Skills courses available on COURSERA. The courses are designed to equip our beneficiaries with skills required to compete favourably in the job market and increase your level [...]

GoGettaz Agribusiness grand prize competition Dear I-Youth Fellows. The GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition supports food warriors who are fighting to transform Africa’s food system.  If you are ready to thrive as an Agripreneur you can power up your inspiration by applying for this grant. You could be one of two US$50,000 GRAND PRIZE WINNERS in the [...]

From Zero to Entrepreneurs These four young women, (R-L) Naomi, Farida, Maryam, and Hauwa are part of the beneficiaries of the Young Africa Works-IITA training program in Kano state. They have become entrepreneurs through the skills acquired during the training. Naomi produces peanut butter, cookies and smoothie derived from groundnut, Farida produces a range of [...]

STEP intervention in schools This is Government Secondary School (G.S.S) Hunkuyi, in Kaduna States. This is one of the schools chosen by Young Africa Works-IITA project for the introduction of the Start Them Early (STEP) component. G.S.S Hunkuyi is unique because majority of the students are farmers who are already making money from farming activities, [...]

Young farmers in Action In Zaria local government in kaduna state, we moved into Hayin Sambo and Maraban Guga communities to train a special group of youths categorized as “Young Farmers.” Young Farmers are less educated youth and women within rural communities between the ages of 18 – 35 years who are already engaged in [...]