STORY PREVIEW

2024

Kids at the forefront of eradicating poverty

Kiddy-Y International

Yaoundé

MENTOR

Aishatu Racheal Nabit Sanjo

Step 1 FEEL

List the challenges or problems in your surroundings (school,neighbourhood etc.) that bothered you.

Alot of poor people who lack basic needs like: Can't afford education, health care, food, and into street crimes.

State the problem chosen to work and why.

Young people are unable to monetize their creative ideas and end up in poverty. This problem has to be addressed because the number of poor people in our community keeps increasing leading to high street crimes and insecurity.

Who were the people affected by the problem? What were their primary concerns?

Young people who are suffering and can't afford the basics of life.

Step 2 IMAGINE

Step 3DO

Describe very briefly the process of implementing your solution(s).

We began by sensitising the kids on the negative effects of poverty and then went ahead to provide them with early Entreprenuership education and carefully identified their individual creative abilities, taught them how to covert their ideas into valuable products and services, taught them pricing strategies and they began advertising products and services via social media and exhibition conferences.

What was the result or impact of your project?

People began buying and ordering their products and services and they began making money to take care of their daily needs.

How many people were impacted by your solution(s)?

What did the impacted people have to say about your project? Provide 2 quotes or testimonials:

I feel so happy that I can monetize my ideas and actually make money from it. I thought I was destined to be poor but that was a lie I believed in. I thought creating wealth was luck but now I know anyone can be wealthy if you know how to get it.

What challenges did you encounter while implementing your project, and how did you overcome them?

Negative mental programming: most of the kids found it difficult to believe poverty had a solution and they could be out of it. We solved this problem by sharing success stories of great people who came from poor backgrounds but became rich via monetizing their own ideas. Secondly, limited resources since most of the kids couldn't afford the materials needed to turn their ideas into valuable products and services.

How long did it take to implement your solution?

MORE THAN 30 DAYS

Which global goals does your story align with?

No poverty

Please explain briefly why do you think so?

Because we are helping poor people to make money from their creative ideas and become rich

Step 4 SHARE

How did you share your project with your school and community? Who did you share your project with? What was their response?

Via social media on WhatsApp groups Physical exhibition conferences

Approximately how many people did you share your story of change with?

More than 100

Briefly share your plan to sustain the impact of your project?

After any child makes money we make sure they invest 50% of the money into creating the next products and we sell and they keep repeating the process until they achieve financial freedom. We also plan to help more children in the community attend our early Entreprenuership trainings via scholarships since most of them are poor.

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