Solving the Global Youth Unemployment Crisis
Friday, April 11, 2014
Session Description
Rising youth unemployment is a challenge both developing and developed countries increasingly face. Failing to find effective solutions to this challenge not only risks a tragic waste of human potential, but also represents a major threat to long-term social cohesion. What answers do we as social entrepreneurs have to resolving this crisis?
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 - 13:00, Friday, April 11, 2014
BST
Location:
SBS, Seminar 10
Speakers
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Speaker
Founder and Chief Executive, Teach a Man to Fish
Nik Kafka is Founder & CEO of Teach a Man to Fish, a non-profit organisation supporting schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to empower young people with the skills needed for success in work and life.
Profit-making enterprises owned by the school but run by students provide a practical way to learn vital business and 21st Century skills - as well as generating profits to pay for school supplies, equipment and community work. These education and enterprise programs have now benefited almost 500,000 young people across more than 100 countries, principally through the School Enterprise Challenge awards program.
Following a successful banking career in London he moved to Paraguay teaming up with the Fundacion Paraguaya where he helped develop the award-winning Financially Self-Sufficient School model. He has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and more recently as recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize 2022
