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United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
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English
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Awareness Days
Gender
Sustainable Development
Youth-led Solutions for Economic Empowerment and Employment
Advocacy for Social Inclusion and Girls Education (ASIGE)
Supported by: Solutions for Youth Employment (World Bank Group)
- Dorcas is a 24-year-old entrepreneur from Bolgatanga, Ghana. She founded Advocacy for Social Inclusion and Girls Education (ASIGE) in 2014 to improve the skills of young people and bring about financial independence. ASIGE basket project was developed in 2017 and currently employs 300 women and teenage mothers in Ghana and across the Globe. These environmentally friendly Baskets are developed to replace plastics and help the world deal with plastic waste. ASIGE reaches out to 5000 adolescent boys and girls annually and has set up ASIGE GHANA microenterprise that produces washable sanitary pads to help girls stay in school from the profit generated from the baskets. She was selected as one of 16 young leaders around the world bringing change to the globe by the European Commission in 2018.
- Elpis Solar’s hardware package provides key services and opportunities to residents of refugee camps. Its multipurpose, off-the-grid devices offer customers water filtration, mobile charging, electricity, and even educational software. The organization has developed two solar charging systems, SolarHub and Swapcy. SolarHub can charge up to 120 phones per day and delivers more than 250 gigabytes of free medical, educational, literary, and entertaining digital content. As for Swapcy, it charges 40 phones per day, and can also filter 300 liters of water and provide light. Because the hubs are managed by refugees, they also present rare entrepreneurial opportunities, ultimately transforming stagnant communities into places of opportunity and growth.
Hosts
United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth