Youth At Work

The Youth At Work initiative seeks to provide participant with work experience and practicality that organisations in mainly the technological and engineering fields demand from their employees. This will help the youth apply knowledge gained during the course of their education into real-life scenarios to solve problems faced by society.

The educational system in Ghana and many other developing countries around the world is flawed. This results from the fact that most things studied under the various educational curriculum are mostly theoretical and make it difficult for the youth to fully appreciate the knowledge that is handed down to them in their various places of learning. 

This affect the youth in the job market because they end up not having the necessary skillset needed by organisation. Organisations mostly tend to hire other individuals who have years of experience at their disposal. In cases where graduates are employed organisations tend to spend huge sums training graduates hence making it more favourable to hire people with experience.

To solve this problem we seek to provide the youth with practical skills they need for the job market during the period of their studies by partnering them with serveral organisations and individuals in their various fields of studies to enable them translate the theoretical knowledge into practice.

The Youth At Work initiative addresses and solves the issue of the lack of experience by graduates of tertiary education institutions. It does this by bringing together both students and companies, organisation and individuals in related fields together to interact to enable students to know what is required of them in the world of work.

It also gives students the opportunity to practice with various organizations in their courses of study to give these students experience of some kind.

Most students in of engineering in Ghana, do not have access to basic equipments like we'll stocked laboratories and workshops which would help them practices the theories studied in their various classrooms. As a result they tend to find themselves disadvantaged in terms of relevance to work experience and translation of theories study into solving real world challenges they are poses with. Our solution hopes to rectify this error and make the youth acquire skillset and experience that will make them relevant.

Persons that are to benefit from the Youth At Work initiative will include;

1. Persons enrolled in secondary and tertiary educational institutions.
2. Persons offering engineering related courses.
3. Individuals who have no work experience in their chosen field of study.

Number of companies that sign on to help train the youth. - 1000 companies sign on to Youth At Work.

Number of people who sign up on website. - 10,000 people sign up as members on our website

Number of people who attend Youth At Work programs in a year. - 15000 people attend programs in a year.

The Youth At Work initiative stands out because if implemented, it would be the first of it's kind in many developing countries that seeks to bring students and organisations closer. This interaction would go on to alert the youth on what is required of them in the real world hence giving them access to emerging technologies and equipping the youth with skills to make them employable.

The technology involved to implement the Youth At Work initiative is designed to be simple to use and easily accessible to all. The internet and smartphones would play a major part in the technology used to implement the Youth At Work initiative. The Youth At Work initiative would also require the use of other equipment like labs for experimental purposes that would help in training programs.

Youth At Work will be accessible to individuals via 

• A web platform that provides online learning.
• Programs and events organised during the course of the year.
• Training meeting organised on various campuses.
• A mobile application development purposely for the Youth At Work initiative.

Youth At Work will be finance in the forms of levies or dues from its members during it's research and pilot stages.

In it's growth stage, Youth in motion intend to finance itself from income it generates from various programs like camps and training sessions it organises. We also intend to make income from sponsors and partners that the Youth At Work initiative cooperates with.

Factors limiting the the Youth At Work initiative currently include the lack of major organisation or companies in the engineering and technology sector as partners to help scale the project.

Also a lack of adequate funds and lack of resource persons to help promote the Youth At Work initiative on various youth campuses are factors currently limiting the Youth At Work initiative.

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I am applying to solve because I believe that through solve, I can be connected to resource persons and partners in the engineering and technology sector that can help me implement the Youth At Work initiative. Also I believe that through the solve community, I can improve upon the Youth At Work initiative and make it better than it currently stands.

I also hope to learn from individuals in the fields of engineering, robotics, and technology to help impact the lives of disadvantaged youths in developing countries.

Our partners include;

• The Basiq Ideas Group, currently a startup mobile and web apps company that develops and trains individual to build desktop, mobile and cloud based applications.
• Pasgid Robotics, a startup that develops ingenious homemade robot for use in Ghana.