Yipe.org

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A blog by fionamati

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News and comments on youth enterprise in Kenya

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Missing files and Tender Entrepreneur Brokers

“The abuse of entrusted power for private gain is always fine for the one person doing it, but it becomes catastrophic if everybody starts doing it.” - David Pitt-Watson Last night on the news, Kenyans got to witness Dorothy Angote, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry

Youth 4 A Better Future: Say Little, Work Hard and Be Young Forev

Youth 4 a Better Future Campaign is an ongoing environmental and social campaign that promotes market driven agriculture, enterprise development, environmental conservation and research. It is an initiative of Maa Community Foundation, Health Awareness Peer Education Programme (HAPEP), IMPACT Kenya Youth Initiative, Tabaiki Sports Association,

Women and Mobile Phone global study reveals that phone ownership

The GSM Association and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, a charity that supports women entrepreneurs has published a report ‘Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity’.  This is the first detailed global study of its kind that attempts to understand the nature of women mobile

Where nobody needs to work or study hard anymore

An article published in this week's Pambazuka raises issues about policies to promote economic development. The article, “South Africa’s ‘bling’ culture is a disgrace” by William Gumede tells of a growing new-money class, living a Hollywood-esque life in the midst of poverty. He

African youth declare that governments must foster entrepreneursh

The 1st World Youth Meeting at Bari, Italy ended yesterday where African delegates released a Declaration that recognised the challenges African youth face including unemployment, corruption,  poverty, lack of access to meaningful education, climate change effects, and civil wars among others. The Declaration further demanded that African

Entrepreneur Profile: Josphat Karinga

Josphat Karinga is the Technical Director of Ristech Solutions a Kenyan company he founded in 2003. The company provides a wide array of services for individual and business clients, including assisting them to overcome the obstacles of bureaucracy in the application for government documents, courier services and car rentals. 

Entrepreneurship - Kenya's Economic Saviour

By Jeconia Omondi Olonde The current economic condition for Kenya is on a down hill while the population growth rate is quite high. This implies there is an increase in unemployment as the new jobs created cannot match the increase in population. A situation is created where the

Doing Business But Suffering in Silence

According to the World Health Organisation, gender-based violence is a major public health and human rights problem throughout the world. Though the assault is carried on in the privacy of the home, the violation is widely seen as a "private" family affair, and for some

Statement from Professor Wangari Maathai on the Mau Forest Comple

Press release, December 2, 2009 Nations of the world are preparing to meet at Copenhagen for the latest round of negotiations to agree on a global treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is expected that reafforestation, and reduced deforestation and forest degradation, will be key solutions to

Community Youth Katiba meetings

Following the publication of the Harmonised Draft of Kenya's Constitution, the Community Youth Katiba meetings have now been confirmed. The community meetings will be low cost activities whose purpose is to collate the views of the youth in the draft constitution. The meetings in the

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