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MENTOR A YOUTH TO THE GLOBAL STAGE FREE 12-WEEK POST-CONFERENCE PROGRAM
What Is "MENTOR A YOUTH TO THE GLOBAL STAGE" Program?
On October 16, I-Train Africa held the biggest mentorship conference for African youths. Over 14,000 African youths registered for this event. Of this number, I-Train Africa is offering 5000 of the youths that registered and attend this event, FREE 12-week mentorship and coaching on different soft, life and hard skills. They also get 3 months free access to one of I-Train Africa’s online courses that teaches about grants, scholarships and 8 other types of global opportunities. This post event program is tagged “MENTOR A YOUTH TO THE GLOBAL STAGE”
How Do I Get Selected?
SELECTION CLOSED TO PARTICIPANTS ON NOV 1, 2021
What Do I Get?
- Month one (4 weeks) – LIFE SKILLS. Guest coaches will take you through a mindset uplift, personality discovery and help you achieve a winning and global mindset amongst other life skills you need to excel. Month one will focus on DEFNING WHO YOU ARE TO ATTAIN CLARITY.
- Month 2 (4 weeks) – SOFT SKILLS. Networking, application for global opportunities and a host of other soft skills will be taken by coaches. This month focuses on DIRECTION AND PROJECTING YOUR VALUE.
- Month 3 (4 weeks) – HARD SKILLS. Different focus areas such as entrepreneurship, Forex, Agriculture and other skills that leads to employability will be in month 3. This month focuses on HARD SKILLS.
What Topics Are Covered?
- Mindset reorientation – Nov 14 – 20, 2021
- Personality discovery – Nov 21 – 27, 2021
- Skillset discovery – Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2021
- Design thinking/Problem Solving – Dec 5 – 11, 2021
- Communications – Dec 12 – 18, 2021
- Networking/Building relationships – Jan 9 – 15, 2022
- Filling Applications for Scholarships, Grants & other global opportunities – Jan 16 – 22, 2022
- Leadership – Jan 23 – 29, 2022
- Entrepreneurship – Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2022
- Agriculture – Feb 6 – 12, 2022
- Forex trading – Feb 6, – 12, 2022.
How Does The Program Work?
This program has 4 major stakeholders
- Participants – Those who benefit (African Youths) from the program.
- Guest coaches – These are coaches who come in to deliver a 2-hours webinar on the topic for the week (listed above). This resident coach will also be available for the rest of the week to answer questions around the week’s topic on the Facebook group we host the students. To be a resident coach or partner with us, click the button below.
- Resident mentors – These are individuals who have excelled in their careers and have great values and clarity. 15 of these individuals will be available to take clarity calls on Saturdays from the participants. Resident mentors will serve across the 12-week period in which the program will last. Each mentor will open a Calendly account (an appointment booking app) where the participants can choose a time slot. The clarity calls will hold on zoom/WhatsApp depending on the most convenient for both. To be a resident mentor, click the button below.
- Sponsor – This program has participants from 40+ African countries. Your organization may come onboard as a sponsor for this program. To partner with us, send an email to itrainafrica@gmail.com and a detailed document will be sent to you.
Other Important information and schedule
- November 3 – Selection of Faculty and Resident Mentors
- November 3 – Last day for participants who are interested to fill the acceptance form.
- November 7, 2021 – Emails to all candidates who are selected for the program
- Duration of program – November 13, 2021 – February 13, 2022
- November 10 – Program of events and curriculum to be sent out to all selected mentors, guest coaches and participants
- November 13 – Briefing of all resident mentors
- November 13, 2021 (4 PM – 6 PM, WAT) – Onboarding of participants on zoom meeting
- November 14, 2021 – Week 1 coaching begins.
- December 19 . 2021 – January 8, 2022 – Christmas break
- January 9, 2022 – Coaching continues
- January 12, 2022 – Access granted to online course on scholarships and grants
- February 12, 2022 – Coaching ends
- February 13 – Graduation of successful participants and issuance of certificate of participation.
ABOUT THE GLOBAL MENTORSHIP CONFERENCE FOR AFRICAN YOUTHS THAT HELD OCTOBER 16. 2021
With half of Africa’s population under the age of twenty-five, it is impossible to gainsay that Africa is the world’s largest reservoir of youths. However, the huge potential of global domination that comes with this abundance of youths has not been reached. Frankly speaking, we have barely scratched the surface. To even begin with, most of these youths are unemployed: Africa has a youth unemployment rate of 77%. This is partly due to a lack of quality education; around 89 million youth are out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa. Interestingly, there are about 25 million unemployed graduates in Nigeria alone.
This means that the problem is not limited to lack of education, but extends to lack of clarity and direction, lack of information and exposure, lack of soft skills, and lack of technical skills.
This conference has thus been designed to give African youths clarity and enlighten them about the vast opportunities available to them, the skills they need to acquire to compete favorably to secure these opportunities, where those skills can be acquired, and how these opportunities can be utilized for their development and that of Africa/Globe.
Hence, the theme of this global conference is “Unleashing the potential of African Youth to become Sustainability Champions & Global Citizens”
The goal of this “by and for youth” conference is to provide group mentoring to 50,000 African youths via this conference. We hope to set a tone that centers around CLARITY, DIRECTION, MENTORSHIP, SOFT/LIFE SKILLS and NETWORKING at this conference.
This online conference will host speakers and panelists from 6 continents and 20+ countries. Participants are expected from 30+ African countries
Date:
October 16, 2021
Time:
11:00AM – 6:00PM (WAT)
Venue:
Online (via Hopin)
ABOUT THE CONVENERS
I-Train Africa is an Ed-tech social enterprise focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs) 4 (Education) and 8 (Decent work and economic growth). This social enterprise was born owing to the obvious gap in the education that we are being offered in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
I-Train Africa’s aim is to build the future we want to see in Africa by creating awareness, blueprint programs, and a community where we offer practical 21st-century knowledge and skills that lead to the empowerment of youths.
I-Train Africa has since its inception created different programs geared towards youth empowerment in Africa and built an online community of 1200+ youths from 8+ African countries.
WHAT YOU GET FROM THE CONFERENCE
- Clarity with what you can do globally with what you have locally
- Support, and mentorship from seasoned global leaders
- Gaining a new network of African youths with like-minds
- Clarity with what you can do with what you have
- Understanding how to access global opportunities such as scholarships, grants, innovation labs, etc.
- Education about the Sustainable Development Goals and how to harness them to win global opportunities
ABOUT THE CONVENERS
UNLEASH is a global initiative that brings together young leaders, experts, and entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The mission of UNLEASH is to empower and unite passionate youth and engage cross-sector partners to generate and grow solutions to achieve the SDGs. We envision it to be the most impactful youth innovation platform for the SDGs.
Since 2017, UNLEASH has engaged more than 4,000 young people from 167 countries to create over 700 SDG-solutions. In addition, UNLEASH has reached over 23 million people via its communications efforts, making them one of the world’s most influential sustainability brands according to Onalytica.
UNLEASH has empowered 5 ambassadors from Sub-Saharan Africa region to lead regional activities, grow a local UNLEASH hub across Sub-Saharan Africa, strengthen engagement and action amongst alumni, and be a voice in Sub-Saharan Africa.
OUR SPEAKERS/PANELISTS
Event Schedule
- Welcome Speech by Mrs. Adio-Adepoju / UNLEASH secretariat – 11:00 am – 11.30 am
- Lecture I: The SDGs: Challenges and Opportunities in a World of Seven Billion by Sisira Withanachchi (PhD) (Germany)- 11.30 pm – 12:00 pm
- Lecture II: Who is a global citizen/leader? by Keynote Speaker – 12.00 pm – 12.30 pm
- Lecture III: The parts that leads to the global stage by Corina Kwami (PhD) – 12.30 pm – 1 PM
- Interactive Session – Based on SDGs of interest by all panelists – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
- Lecture IV: Networking / Strategic partnership for global citizenship by Arielle Berghammer-Ziegler (America) – 2 pm – 2.15 pm
- Lunch/Networking – 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
- Lecture V: – The Link between your local problem, skills, SDGs and global citizenship by Aderinsola Adio-Adepoju (Nigeria) 3:00 PM – 3.20 PM
- Interactive session: Based on Industry (Academia, Entrepreneurship, Professional career path) – Skills needed to become a global citizen/leader by all panelists -3.20 pm – 4.20 pm
- Lecture vi: The way forward by Adam Mostogl (Australia) – 4.20 pm – 4.40 pm
- Closing Remark by Aderinsola Adio-Adepoju / Andrews Akoto-Addo – 4.40 PM – 5:00 pm
- Networking to make new alliances all participants and panelists – 5:OO PM – 6:00 PM
Address:
Lagos, Nigeria
website:
www.itrainafrica.com
Contact Us:
+2348053453099
globalmentorshipconference@gmail.com
itrainafrica@gmail.com
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