Young Professionals Mentoring Initiative, Nigeria

Project name: Young Professionals Mentoring Initiative of Nigeria

Project location: Nigeria

Website: https://yopmin.org

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/yopmin123/

Project description:

Young Professionals Mentoring Initiative of Nigeria (YoPMIN) is the Nigerian Chapter of Young Professionals Mentoring Initiative of African (YoPMIA). It is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, which is set-up in Nigeria but for the entire African region.

One of the main motivations for setting up of YoPMIA is owing to the realization that the process of selection of career by African youths is unguided. Being improperly informed, the youths take on different careers and struggle through the educational system without good understanding of the applicability of the knowledge obtained from the educational system in addressing the myriads of problems in their immediate society. Thus they graduate without obtaining the required skills needed by the industry or without being able to identify opportunities associated with the knowledge obtained from studies.

A second motivation is to foster localized creativity among the young ones and achieve an all inclusive socio-economic growth & development in Africa, with a special focus on entrepreneurship and conservation/optimization of natural resources in the region in addressing the problems of the continent.

YoPMIA intends to achieve its aims and objectives through partnering with colleges and tertiary institutions of learning across different African countries, as well as the Ministries of education (who are responsible for the formulation of policies and regulation of education) in these countries.
In order to realize its goals, YOPMIA shall be established in other African Countries. These will be considered as Chapters of YOPMIA, with YoPMIN being the first chapter and Nigeria as its headquarters of YoPMIA.

YOPMIN interfaces with both the institutions of learning and individuals directly. It will strive to mentor young Africans from the earliest stage of their career development (Senior Secondary School (SSS) one) through University, until they become full professionals.

YOPMIA shall strive to attract, retain and motivate very sound manpower to drive its initiative, special attention on gender equality in its staffing. It shall endeavour to employ only people whose skills, talents and career goals align very well with its objectives and core values. Its workforce structure shall be flexible in order to afford everyone who wishes to key into the vision of YOPMIA, (especially females desiring to have special arrangement of working) the opportunity to do so. Consequently it shall make provision for both permanent and temporal positions, as well as full time and part time positions

We at YoPMIN consider the organization as a strategic driver towards the realization of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

Goal and purpose of the project:

1. To mentor Nigerians and indeed Africans at large to become professionals in careers that are aligned with their talents
2. To compliment the efforts of Secondary & Tertiary Institutions of learning by providing more exposures to the students on the applicability of the taught concepts in Schools relating to different Careers
3. To provide guidance to Parents/Guardians of students in Secondary schools on best options of supporting their wards professional development
4. To serve as a dependable source of feedback to Ministry of education on areas of improvement in secondary & tertiary educational system
5. To offer young Nigerians varied cheap pathways to becoming professionals in Careers of their choice
6. Reduce the rate of unemployment in Nigeria by helping Nigeria students apply the knowledge obtained from the University in addressing prevailing problems in the society and become Entrepreneurs
7. To collaborate with tertiary institutions of learning to carry out well informed researches, conferences and seminars that are aimed at addressing the problems of the Nigerian/African society.
8. To collaborate with Secondary schools to carryout Projects, Workshops and seminars that are aimed at stimulating the appetite of young Nigerians for different Professional fields
9. To reduce the rate of illegal immigrants from Africa to the western world
10. To increase the contributions and competitiveness of African workforce in the global labour market

Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:

We believe our Project besides our overall goal, could be seen as a huge Driver for the realization of the UN's SDGs and thus wish to share it on this platform with a view of obtaining support from both the organizers of this event and voters alike.

Use of prize money:

To fund operations of the organization which include but not limited to payment of salaries, carrying out projects/workshops/seminars for colleges, increase our outreach especially in very vulnerable parts of Nigeria and Africa at large, etc.