Africa-Press – Ghana. The Global Media Foundation (GloMeF) has announced plans to establish a multi-purpose Adolescent Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hub to offer employable skills training for one million adolescents to lessen their vulnerabilities.
GloMeF is a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying youth voices, promoting accountability, and driving social change through education, media, and community-based interventions.
Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GloMeF explained that the hub would be established in Sunyani, the Bono Regional capital, anticipated to provide employable skills training to fetch them jobs and enhance their socio-economic livelihoods.
Speaking in an interview in Sunyani on its vision for the adolescent in 2026, he said the hub would offer practical entrepreneurial, digital, and life skill.
He said the initiative aligned with GloMeF’s broader youth empowerment and social innovation agenda that sought to tackle emerging challenges of youth unemployment, skills mismatch, and limited access to start-up support, particularly among vulnerable and under-served adolescents.
The hub will serve as a one-stop center for innovation, skills development, and mentorship for adolescents.
Mr Ahenu said: “The hub is designed to unlock the creative and economic potential of adolescents,”, saying that: “Our goal is to train and mentor at least a million young people in entrepreneurship, digital literacy, agribusiness, creative arts, and social enterprise”.
The training, he added, would empower young people to become job creators, instead of job seekers, and the hub would provide hands-on training, incubation support, access to mentors, seed funding linkages, and market exposure.
He said emphasis would be placed on girls, persons with disabilities, as well as out-of-school adolescents, ensuring inclusive and equal opportunities.
Mr Ahenu explained that the hub would further integrate financial literacy, leadership development, climate-smart innovation, and civic responsibility, aligned with national youth development priorities and the United National Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It focuses on the set targets for global goals four and eight of ensuring education and decent work and economic growth by 2030 respectively.
He said the foundation would work closely with local authorities, educational institutions, private sector partners, traditional leaders, and development organisations to ensure sustainability and long-term impact of the initiative.
“The establishment of the hub marks a significant milestone in GloMeF’s ongoing commitment to youth empowerment, human rights advocacy, and inclusive development in Ghana”, Mr Ahenu stated.
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