Edpio Smart Workshop

Many creative youths in Nigeria find it difficult to afford or access the right facilities to maximize their skills and this can be burdensome, crippling the creative ones and excluding them from opportunities.

Our solution is simple, to creative a workshop ecosystem of cross professions, where professionals of different fields, both handworks and soft skills can come in to use these facilities and an affordable subscription fee which would be used for maintenance and expansion.

These problem may not only be particular in Nigeria but across Africa and some other parts of the world and these solution would mean empowering the masses as it could cause mental illness and depression to be very skilled as a person but not be able to monetize this due to lack of equipment or social facilities.

The unaffordable and lack of access to required tools and facilities by skilled and unemployed youths causes mental depression, societal rejection and exclusion from economic development as these youths are left to wander with no one to depend on and so turn to various fraudulent activities which today has damaged the identity of Nigerians. 

By providing a standard workshop of cross handiwork professions and soft skills with the required tools and facilities, the Nigerian youths would be able to monetize their skills, be self dependent, have a sense of responsibility and inclusion in social economic growth and put their brilliant minds to effective and efficient use.

Our solution is focused on the skilled and unemployed youths of Nigeria with a population of over 100 million youths. Our solution would help them maximize their productivity, put their skills and minds to effective and efficient use for social economic development, give them a sense of responsibility and inclusion in the society.

Our Workshop provides technological and digital literacy as well as other facilities to ensure that skilled youths irrespective of their professional backgrounds can maximize their productivity, increase their daily income and contribute to economic growth, even if in rural communities. 

What makes our solution innovative is our courage to implement it, this is a problem of youths and the unemployed but nobody is doing anything about it, even the government or well established companies.

Beneficiaries of our workshop would sign up to our app which would help them manage the use if the workshop, informing them if the workshop is available for use depending on our occupied it is with other users and maintain the usage duration so there us a fair usage between beneficiaries.

It is simply providing sewing machines in a section for fashion designers and tailors, shoemaking workshop for shoemakers and computer workshop for programmers, graphic designers amongst others. This are available facilities that are working and we are making them available for the poor unemployed youths.

With the implementation of our solution, more youths would be actively engaged in social economic growth, self dependency and sense of responsible and inclusion in the society.

With more people connected to the internet and learning to upgrade in the informal sector to meet global standard and technological advancements, the society would be more developed.

We currently are running our business as handiwork professional and with the successful implementation of this proposed workshop, 10,000 youths would benefit from it cross professional departments.

In 5 years, the number of beneficiaries is likely to be about 70,000 youths.

Within the next year, we plan to have the workshop built and setup with required facilities for usage of about 10,000 youths.

In 5 years, from revenues generated, we would have expanded to other regions in the country and have more youths (70,000) benefit from this solution.

Currently, lack of fund to implement this solution is the only challenge.

In 5 years, the possible challenge could be government support.

If we can access capital to setup this workshop, we would generate revenue through 'affordable' monthly subscription by beneficiaries and also from a department of plastic waste management and recycle (generating revenue through 3D personalized services), these revenues would be use in the maintenance and expansion of these solution across the country.

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Four (4) full time workers.

Each of us are handiwork professionals with academic backgrounds and other field experiences. Amongst us are caterers, shoemakers, tailors and designers with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the informal sector (handiwork profession).

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We provide adequate facilities for skilled unemployed youths to assist them to maximize their productivity and become self dependent.

We generate revenue through 'an affordable' monthly subscription fee by beneficiaries, for the maintenance of the workshop and its expansion.

We would also generate revenue through personalized services by recycled plastic waste in forms of 3D products.

Our solution would increase the number of responsible and social economic inclusive youths who would contribute to the economy.

We generate revenue through 'an affordable' monthly subscription fee by beneficiaries, for the maintenance of the workshop and its expansion.

We would also generate revenue through personalized services by recycled plastic waste in forms of 3D products to customers.

We would also seek grants from the government and private organizations.

We hope to receive fund (capital) to implement our proposed solutions. 

We seek mentors who would help us understand how best to seek funding and generate revenue and also for legal and regulatory matters.

We would live to partner with MIT Faculty and the Solve members.

This prize would help my team further expand our solution to other parts of the country where these problems are faced, that is, unemployed skilled youths who do not have access to required tools and facilities.

Refugees and internally displaced persons from terrorism locations would benefit from our solution.

We are driven to achieve gender equality and decent work, women constitute majority of the Nigerian population and would benefit the most from our solution and this prize would help us connect more women in rural and pre-urban areas to the internet and step up their informal skill to global standard.

A lot of Nigerian youths struggle with access to required tools and facilities to help them actualize their skills, these problems are also faced by startups and nobody is doing anything about it.

Our solution would be a relief to the youths and help them access these facilities so as to maximize their skills and productivity.

Nigeria has a fast growing population and majority of who are very talented youths who do not have access to the required tools and facilities to maximize their skills and end up in areas where they are least productive and so end in poverty.

This prize would help us empower youths to dictate their future by giving them access to these facilities to help them maximize their skills and productivity, making them self dependent and responsible and inclusive in social economic growth.