ChasteCharity Blog - The Future
Project (TFP) in partnership with Nigeria's leading jobs portal, Jobberman.com
has formally announced its employability programme, Intern4Jobs which will
up-skill and connect at least 100,000 young West Africans to jobs and job opportunities
through internships over the next two years. "There
are 64 million youths in Nigeria (under-35). Over 54 percent of that population
is unemployed according to the National Bureau of Statistics," said
Ayodeji Adewunmi who is chief executive of Jobberman. "Over 200,000 number
of young people come out of school each year. Over 90 percent of them are
unable to find jobs. For a country already suffering violence, crime and acute
insecurity, this is a crisis. And all hands need to be on deck to own the solution
to this problem."
Mfon Ekpo,
Chief Operating Officer of TFP and a Fellow of President Obama's Mandela
Washington Fellowship, added: "Young people are mostly tired of motivation
and nice words – they want to see the opportunities that exist and take
advantage of them.
"We at
The Future Project have always been conscious of this imperative – launching
The Future Enterprise Support Scheme in 2008 to help young people be
upskilled/trained, learn on the job and be supported to grow in their careers.
Over 40% of our interns from 2008 – 2010 were connected with jobs in that
period."
Following
TFP's experience with TFESS as well as its employability portal, Aiki.ng
presented in partnership with Microsoft, it has aggressively scaled up the
internship programme – structuring it as Intern4Jobs.
Its goal is
two-fold:
1.
Give youth the practical skills they need to get jobs.
2.
Give youth a foot in the (job market) door they would otherwise not have
gotten.
It achieves
this goal through its network of Internship Partners who take on young
graduates into their firms and train them on the job for a period of 3 – 6
months.
The
on-the-job training is structured to ensure that the interns are employable and
are able to take up jobs within a month of their training being concluded -
through a structured curriculum and a network of Mentor4Jobs and Coach4Jobs to
closely supervise them.
To apply,
young people who are aged 35 and below and who are graduates of a tertiary
institution should email intern4jobs@thefutureafrica.com with their CVs and a 250-word cover
letter on 'Why I am ready for a job'. The title of the mail should read
'Intern4Jobs – Application'.
Applicants
should be between 18 and 35.
"Intern4Jobs,
which focuses on young people who want to build careers directly complements
our #StartupsAfrica programme which focuses on building those who want to be
entrepreneurs," Ekpo said. "Together we are determined to secure the
continent through enterprise and jobs."
For more
information, The Future Project can be reached by phone on+2348022226712, via
email on info@thefutureafrica.com, on Twitter & Instagram via
@TFAAfrica and on Facebook via /TheFutureAwards.
ABOUT THE FUTURE PROJECT
The Future
Project has a simple mandate - to build empowered citizens across Africa,
through (inclusive) enterprise and (active) citizenship. This focus on Human
Capital Development is informed by our value proposition: Africa's growth needs
a generation of young people who are gainfully employed and able to demand and
secure better leadership.
Our
projects include Aiki.ng, an employability portal presented with Microsoft; the
Nigeria Symposium for Young & Emerging Leaders, #StartupsAfrica,
Intern4Jobs, The m-Hub, TheFuture Enterprise Support Scheme and The Future
Africa Awards & Summit, described as 'The Nobel Prize for Young Africans'.
With a
network of funders and partners including the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the US
Government, First Bank, MTN, HP, the Nigerian Government and the British
Council, our work has spanned Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia,
Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi, Cameroon, Somalia, Equitorial Guinea, Ivory Coast
and Kenya.
Founded by the Chude
Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, TFP is supervised by a Global Board of Advisors
drawn from Africa, Europe, North America and the Middle East, including the
Coordinating Minister of the Nigerian Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Senior
Economic Advisor with the Open Society Foundations, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili;
co-founder of ONE, Jamie Drummond and the Chief of Cabinet with the Africa
Development Bank, Anne Kabagambe.
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