STUDENTS INTERACT WITH TOP KISUMU ENTREPRENEURS DURING ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT
It’s not every day
in Maseno University that you get to have Kisumu’s top businessman and
philanthropist flanked with a top female entrepreneur, Kisumu’s top civic and
social organization professional plus a former Google Student Ambassador in one
room and a group of ambitious and motivated students passionate about
entrepreneurship, innovation and development.
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| Some of the participants posing for a photo with Kenya Youth Hub officials after the summit |
Well that is just
what Kenya Youth Hub managed to do last Friday at the university’s board room
during a youth entrepreneurship summit organized by the group led by fourth
year Political Science student Duncan Njue who is the C.E.O of the hub.
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| Guest Speakers at the Summit.L-R. Abdul Qadir Mohammed, Betty Okero, James Odede, Joshua Nyamori |
Kenya Youth Hub-KYH is a non-governmental organization which seeks
to empower the youths by acting as a link between youths and opportunities. The hub’s mission is to provide a platform and a home to
nurture and empower the Kenyan youths through values driven, informative and
inclusive approaches for personal, community and national development.
The guest speakers, Abdul Qadir
Mohammed, C.E.O of Dubai Auto Spares, Joshua Nyamori,lead consultant at Kisumu Urban Project,Betty Okero, C.E.O of Civil Society Networks, James Odede and Taye Balogun all gave
an account of their journey in entrepreneurship and what the future holds for
the ambitious students who were present at the summit. The former gave a
personal story about how he had started selling watches while in class five while
the latter challenged those present to rethink their understanding of what it
is to be African and how to move on after that. Taye Balogun(who addressed the summit via Skype) shared a short video of his African Storytellers Project dubbed Why Africans Are Not United that he exhibited at Kuona Trust last
month and collaborated in with top Kenyan photographer and instagrammer Mutua
Matheka.
All of the close to 100 attendees will be given a
certificate of participation in the summit and will be personally invited to
the next summit to be held in January next year.
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| Student panelists during the summit |
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| Kenya Youth Hub Officials |
So, what better way to show you what was said at the event
than to use some of the many tweets that were being sent by the tech savvy students
and the guests at the event?
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
@youthhubKE
some people are living in Africa but their minds are in America #masenoyouthsummit2014
Yo! #TayeBalogun
now joins us via Skype to talk abt his projects and vision for Africa. @youthhubKE
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
"If you fear that someone is gonna
steal your idea then you dont have enough" #TayeBalogun via skype @YouthhubKe
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
Talking #panAfricanism
and mental liberation at the @youthhubKE
summit. Your problem is you! #TayeBalogun
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
from @nyawy
barbra the 'implementor' "look at the good things in life'' #masenoyouthsummit2014
@youthhubKE ,day well spent :-)
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
Whose erased the last zero though RT @youthhubKE..... REWARD KSH.200 BOB for most
tweets....twende kazi #MasenoYouthsummit2014
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
here comes an artist, churchill a political
science student @maseno_uni
#masenoyouthsummit2014
@youthhubKE
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
@youthhubKE
#masenoyouthsummit2014
The best way to predict the future is to create it
@youthhubKE
@MUTWIRI_ I hope my presence & that of
fellow Speakers will make a +ve difference in the thinking of the #masenoyouthsummit2014
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
"Always appreciate TIME. Keep Time.
" ~ @AbdulqadirOmar at #MasenoYouthsummit2014
@youthhubKE
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
@youthhubKE
#masenoyouthsummit2014...youths
can change the socio-economic and political of this country @joshua_nyamori
Kenya Youth Hub retweeted
@youthhubKE
#masenoyouthsummit2014
The best way to predict the future is to create it
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