Media Entrepreneur and Head of Digital Media and partnership for Forbes Africa, Peace Hyde has opened a new branch of her Aim Higher Africa in Lagos.
Aim Higher Africa is an innovative entrepreneurship development and skills acquisition non-profit, which aims at helping Africa’s youth to achieve economic prosperity through entrepreneurship. The new branch opened in Lagos, Nigeria is designed to train unemployed youth and grassroot entrepreneurs as well as startups through its innovative Mindset 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.
The founder of the organization, Peace Hyde had this to say, “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 in training”.
Peace Hyde created the MDRT curriculum along with innovation and entrepreneurship professor, Dr. Gordon Adomdza, PHD. Holder from the University of Waterloo and lecturer at Harvard University.
“Our new center has a vision of helping entrepreneurial youths, 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”.
The organization, since its inception has managed to build over 600 businesses in West Africa, which has led to 3000 youth employment and as a result gave them the spotlight to be featured on CNN this year.
Peace Hyde, who also serves as a West Africa correspondent for the prestigious Forbes Africa magazine states on the organization’s website that, her motivation for establishing Aim Higher Africa was when she identified from continent billionaires and millionaires in a one-on-one interview that the power of the mind helped them to overcome their challenging days in business and as such decided to change the way the Youngpreneurs think.
