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The LivelyHoods Hustle: Why sales and marketing skills are a natural fit for Nairobi slum youth
The creativity and intelligence of more than 75 percent of the Kenya’s youth goes underutilized in the current job market. Often, they are not only a wasted resource, but contribute to insecurity and unrest when left with few alternatives to survive. We founded LivelyHoods to address this problem by offering sales and marketing training to young people in Nairobi slums.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Four Lessons From a Social Entrepreneur : Tackling the youth employment crisis in Southern Africa
News headlines are replete with stories of a growing youth bulge and impending youth unemployment crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. Still, many social entrepreneurs are at work even now creating solutions to these types of challenges—a sort of counter-balance that shapes fortune out of misfortune. Young Africa is one of them.
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- Education
