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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The Anzisha Prize is the premier award for African leaders aged 15-20 who have developed and implemented innovative solutions to challenges facing their communities.
The Prize recognizes young people whose passion for Africa drives them to design and develop projects that transform their communities and the continent. The Anzisha Prize is an initiative of the African Leadership Academy in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
Fifteen finalists from across Africa will win an all-expense paid trip to South Africa to be part of a week-long entrepreneurship conference at the African Leadership Academy campus on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The grand prize winners will share prizes worth $75,000, to take their projects to new heights.
Eligibility
Each applicant would be judged by the following:
Impact: applicant's efforts have a demonstrated, measurable and positive
outcome.
Ingenuity: applicant takes a new and better approach to a pressing problem in
his or her community.
Scalability: applicant's solution has the potential to be replicated in communities
facing similar challenges.
Deadline to apply is May 1, 2012, but early submissions are highly encouraged.
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................................
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