Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Youth and Sports, Palmira Barbosa, appealed this Friday, in Luanda, the need for young people to reinforce the creation of small businesses and invest in creative and multidimensional entrepreneurship, with a view to overcoming current levels of unemployment and contributing for the country’s socioeconomic growth.
The minister, who was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the PRODEM-ANGOLA business model, as part of the signing of a cooperation protocol between the Angolan Youth Institute (IAJ) and the Angolan Businessmen’s Association (AEA), said that the implementation of entrepreneurial ideas creates new employment opportunities and meets the main needs of their families.
Therefore, the minister encouraged young Angolans to remain calm and firm in the face of the adversities they face, in the hope that a new page of prosperity will be opened, if everyone does their best.
On the occasion, Palmira Barbosa recognized the contribution that young entrepreneurs have made to the increase and diversification of local production and the supply of goods and services in the country, with emphasis on creating jobs and combating hunger and poverty.
In relation to the cooperation protocol initialed between the Angolan Youth Institute and the Association of Businessmen of Angola, the minister considered it to be an instrument capable of contributing to the resolution of the numerous socio-economic problems of young people, through the gradual creation of sources of fixed income , based on the formal economy.
In turn, the general director of the Angolan Youth Institute, Yuri Cardoso, said that the entrepreneurial project, called PRODEM-ANGOLA, trained the first 15 young people in small business, management and administration, marketing, attracting investment, commerce and business licensing.
The respective training also included subjects related to baking and confection, with each of the trainees benefiting from a complete kit to start a small business, within their localities.
Recent graduates in entrepreneurship in the bakery chain, Bruna de Almeida and Simão Manuel, praised the initiative of the associated businesspeople in financing young people’s projects.
The first phase, which runs until the second half of 2024, plans to train a thousand young people in entrepreneurship and assign the respective kits, so that they can start their businesses and produce more than 150 thousand units of bread and savory snacks.
The second phase will cover the remaining 17 provinces of the country, focusing on training in agri-business and small industry.
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