Support 5000 young graduates to be self-employed

We are so grateful to our dear donors, especially our recurrent donors, who have continuously supported us ever since we first posted our programme on the Global Giving platform in 2011. You have so far provided us with US$ 7,489.00 out of the requested US$ 100,000.00 needed to support the target total of 5,000 participants. We are grateful to Global Giving for supporting us to raise this amount. We are well aware that you could have chosen to support other causes instead of poor unemployed youth in Ghana. Your contributions to our micro projects under the Lift 20 Unemployed Youth from Poverty to Jobs, brings us to an overall total of US$ 9,820. THANK YOU!

We are happy to inform you that to date we have helped many unemployed youth into jobs and start-up businesses. Unfortunately, the unemployment rate, just for graduates stands at 79,000 a year and due to the limited vacancies, job seekers stay with us much longer than expected. Fortunately, our approach to helping them is in the form of transitional internships, where they learn office management and operations; ICT for operations and management and proposal, resume and application writing. Consequently, their time spent with us gives them practical work experience which enhances their resume and their career prospects. However, the longer they stay with us, the more money we spend on a stagnant number of participants. This situation, together with our limited financial resources, limits the number of new participants we can enroll.

More importantly however, is the weakening of our purchasing power due to the constant rise in prices and the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi. This is more pronounced when prices go up just when we receive donations. Consequently, we are unable to help as many participants as we had planned within our estimated budgets.

Within the above context, your monthly recurrent donations have become our life line. Without them, our resource mobilization yields limited results, making it almost impossible to increase our intake. Our efforts to make an appreciable dent in the number of unemployed youth therefore become that much more difficult.

Currently, we have six incubators starting businesses in fashion design, event management, catering and farming and several interns. All of them are supported with office and event space, equipment, tools, laptops, Wi-Fi Internet, consumables, etc, as well as mentoring and capacity building. We know for a fact, that financial constraints are more than ever a global trend. This makes us highly appreciative of the continuing donations you make through Global Giving. We are infinitely grateful to you and Global Giving for literally putting food on the table by creating jobs for unemployed youth in Ghana and therefore supporting whole families.

                                                             THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.

                                   MAY YOU CONTINUE TO PROSPER IN PEACE AND GOOD HEALTH

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