US Embassy Ethiopia - Young Women's Empowerment: Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Tue, Aug 20
|US Embassy Ethiopia
Ethiopian-born Bethel Endawoke, an intern at NIMBLE, Middlebury College student, and creator of the Fura Innovations project, and NIMBLE founder and CEO Mariette Wharton, developed and led a leadership, design thinking and entrepreneurship workshop for Ethiopian females ages 17-22.
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2019, 9:00 AM – Aug 25, 2019, 3:00 PM
US Embassy Ethiopia, H9VH+FQ4, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
About the event
Five teams came up with solutions to problems they care about:
Eureka Youth Center, an activity center to promote extracurriculars (non-existent in Ethiopia) for ages 15-25
Bridge, a 2-sided market for graduating university students and employers (Ethiopian universities don’t have career centers)
Ethio-Face Broadcast, a social media platform to help ease ethnic tensions (more than 80 different Ethiopian cultures)
Phoenix Girls Center, a set of services for girls empowerment
HI! School software management to accept payments and track student attendance, grades and other info (non-existent locally)