Sunday, August 28, 2011

Graduate Integration Programme Scholarship



Africa Women and Youth Organization (AWYO) is a non-profit organization with offices in Berlin and Abuja, with a track record of impacting 1985 people directly and over 500,000 through mass media within its first 12 months of operations in Nigeria.

The Graduate Integration Programme, a brainchild of AWYO in partnership with Abuja Enterprise Agency, is a subsidized72 hour intensive training that runs for four (4) weeks with a view to supporting its participants to start their own businesses.Participants will be groomed in the knowledge areas of entrepreneurship (through the AEA Business School), employability skills and project management.  The program is designed to take 30 participants per session.
Currently, 33% of our graduates from the last session are employed as Business Extension Workers for Abuja Enterprise Agency, 4% of the class are employed and 60% of the class are undergoing business to start their own business through the provision of SEED capital at 9% interest rate payable over a period of 2 years. TY Danjuma Foundation provided partial support for the 1st session, however there are four outstanding slots from the session that are available for the best of applicants applying for the second session of the programme.
The participants sponsored will have access to the following:
i.                    Start-up fund of five hundred thousand naira (N500, 000) with an interest rate of 9% for an excellent business plan.
ii.                  Internship with Abuja Enterprise Agency and other corporate organizations for three months.
iii.                Classroom participatory learning approach in 3 knowledge areas: employability skills, project management and entrepreneurship.
iv.                Executive lunch break.
v.                  Training materials.
AWYO is calling for applicant interested in scholarship. You can download application on www.awyo.org or send a mail to gip@awyo.org. Scholarship application closes on the 31st of August 2011 by 12noon. 

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