Grace Ihejiamaizu is a Sociology graduate and emerging Social Entrepreneur with over 3 years experience managing various youth-led and community based projects. Her passion for positive change in Nigeria has led her to develop the RYPE Initiative, a project that is helping young people gain real skills to become leaders and productive entrepreneurs.
Her active involvement in various community-based projects and outstanding leadership achievements has won her some national and international recognition including her recent recognition by Google's Zeitgeist as one of the 12 Brightest Young Minds in 2011. She is also a worthy alumnus of a US Government program, SUSI - "Study of the US Institute for Student Leaders". Grace's commitment to ensuring that young people are properly guided and engaged to achieve their dreams won her the Michelle Obama Young African Women Leader's Forum Grant in 2011 in support of her work in the community.
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Are you aged 18 - 24 and making a real difference to the world?
Zeitgeist Young Minds could be the opportunity for you.
Last year saw the emergence of the first ever ‘Young Minds’ who took their place alongside the greatest minds and visionaries of today at Google’s prestigious annual Zeitgeist event near London in May 2011. (read the report)
“I was honoured to be selected as one of Google’s 12 Brightest Young Minds. The indelible learning experience and high level networking opportunity was astounding. From meeting with Innovators and CEOs of leading companies across the world, to sharing experiences with other incredible young minds.” Grace Ihejiamaizu
To
address the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria, Development Alternatives and Resource Center (DARC) has designed a program to help young graduates skill-up to make
them more attractive to employers of labor; the premise being that Nigerian
university graduates have relatively little job related skills and are
ill-prepared for the job market.
Development
Alternatives and Resource Center (DARC) is organizing a Complete
Cycle Program, an Employability program designed by DARC and Clinton
Associates (UK) to increase the employability of Nigerian graduates by
exposing them to the requirements and challenges of the job market.
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Poems yet unwritten, Songs yet unsung, Children yet unborn, Homes yet to be mended, Issues yet unsolved, Heights yet to be reached, Communities yet untouched, Bowels of mercy yet to be poured out, We keep striving, We keep running, We keep dreaming, Till we reach the mark................................
New Level!
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I started a new blog on medium.
One of the first posts on this blog went live on July 07, 2006. The reason
for coming on blogger was to muse about anythi...