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The programme aims at supporting youth entrepreneurs into building competitive bankable ideas and businesses that impact development. <\/p>\n

The founder of the organization, Justin Zoradi said they target to promote young entrepreneurs into businessmen of vitality, contributing to the meeting of national development goals. \u201cWe need entrepreneurs who are ready to acquire new skills. <\/p>\n

The beneficiaries will get trained in four entrepreneurship components in four months. On graduation, we shall invite different investors from across the World and encourage them to invest in these projects,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

He said that Rwanda is prioritizing attraction of new investments and her youths\u2019 thirst for entrepreneurship should be quenched through innovativeness to foster job creation. <\/p>\n

The 150 projects were selected under the programme dubbed \u2018Accelerate Academy\u2019, where 350 projects of youth aged between 18 and 32 competed. <\/p>\n

Copin Fabrice Bien Aim\u00e9, an online-based businessman said that during first days, he has been able to understand and explain clearly his business idea to the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, it is important to understand your business, how you operate it, budgeting, planning and be able to explain your business to a client or investor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Musanze District based basket (agaseke) weaver, Souzane Murekatete said that she has been able to understand the value chain, setting prices and good resources management. <\/p>\n

\u201cTake an example; I didn\u2019t know how much it costs me to put one basket on the market, but after considering invested time and raw materials I use, I realized that it costs me Rwf10,000. So, I need to know the price I should set to be able to earn a profit and pay taxes,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

The last session of this programme ended in June this year by selecting eleven projects engaged in shoe making, food processing and tourism related businesses. All business in total gained a boost of $26,000.<\/p>\n

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A total of 150 Rwandan entrepreneurs running small businesses are set to benefit from a 6-month capacity building programme in business development, under the auspices of University of Rwanda and These Numbers Have Faces, an organization that empowers African youth entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}