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A new five-year
partnership agreement between Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF)
and Ghanaian African Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) was on
Wednesday signed to support youth in agribusiness.
The signing
ceremony alone helped open the minds of many youths to some of the
cardinal rules in entrepreneurship: setting out with a positive mindset
toward investment.
AAIN has pledged to
package the four elements of human capital, infrastructure, technology,
seed investment and policy framework into a collaborative framework
between the African Agribusiness Incubator Network and the Government of
Rwanda to achieve its targets.
World over,
economies are grappling with job demands. Institutions of learning are
churning out more and more graduates against an ever shrinking job
market. This has left the most viable option for many job hopefuls,
especially the youth, being entrepreneurship.
The partnership
hopes to build youth capacity to learn successful businesses using
incubation models particularly mentoring. Needles to say, this is within
the vision of the Government of Rwanda vis-à-vis creating jobs for the
youth.
Learning from
experiences from across the continent and gaining from mentorship
programmes is not something, the youth who are eager to get their
footing in the increasingly challenging entrepreneurial world get every
day. This is a godsend opportunity the youth should grab with both
palms.
It even gets more
interesting that the partnership hopes to direct investment in youth
trade as well as ensuring that there is output and input market
infrastructure development for the products that are produced by the
Rwandan youth.
Opportunities will
always present themselves in many forms. But not everyone can benefit
from them. It takes grit, determination and shrewdness to be among those
who leave the pot of opportunity with the honey harvest. This RYAF-AAIN
deal is one such pot. The youth should invest energy, time and their
all in reaping from it.
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