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The African Union & StartUpAfrica partner to train entrepreneurship in schools across Africa

Milcah Lukhanyu by Milcah Lukhanyu
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The African Union (AU) has endorsed the Diamond Challenge as well as StartUpAfrica to provide educational opportunities and encourage youth entrepreneurship in African nations.

Created by the University of Delaware Horn Program in Entrepreneurship in 2012, the Diamond Challenge is backed by serious academic grounding in state-of-the-art entrepreneurship education methodologies. The Diamond Challenge provides a unique opportunity for teens to learn about entrepreneurship while putting their ideas into action. While many entrepreneurship programs focus on principles of small business management, the Diamond Challenge focuses on unleashing creativity, encouraging a mindset of abundance and self-determination, and promoting purposeful entrepreneurial action.

Dan Freeman and Julie Frieswyk from the University of Delaware’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship visited Kenya hosted by StartUpAfrica Executive Director Erastus Mong’are, traveled to four counties throughout Kenya to visit students who participated in the Horn Program’s Diamond Challenge for High School Entrepreneurs.

There they learned about the students’ exciting ideas, goals and dreams, and about how their projects were making real and positive impacts on their lives and communities. the AU endorsement, which took place at the 2016 StartUpAfrica Entrepreneurship Conference at George Mason University, saw keynote speaker AU Deputy Chair Erastus Mwencha delivere and sign a partnership letter between the AU and StartUpAfrica.

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“StartUpAfrica has been called on to transfer its experience in the area of entrepreneurship in school curricula under the Diamond Challenge program to other African countries,” Mong’are said.

Other goals of the partnership include transferring this curriculum to AU Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) centers and providing assistance to AU entrepreneurship programs targeting women-led businesses.

According to Mwencha, AU’s technical teams managing these programs have identified the work of StartUpAfrica as “an excellent complement to AU’s own programs.”

Mong’are said that the growing success StartUpAfrica and the Diamond Challenge in Africa shows that opportunities are growing and developing for entrepreneurs throughout Africa.

“We at StartUpAfrica take this endorsement and partnership with gratitude knowing that the road behind us has been hard and the one ahead of us will be even harder,” Mong’are said. “But we are prepared for the challenge to deliver quality entrepreneurship programs for youth and women in Africa.”

Frieswyk added that the AU endorsement opens the door for new and additional resources for these programs in African nations, and suggests that the Diamond Challenge / StartUpAfrica model is succeeding.

The partners say they will extend to venture funding when the startups are ready as long as they are addressing valuable and  real need.

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