A Rwandan has emerged winner of the US$50,000 in the ‘Inspire Africa’ competition Sunday.
Clarisse Iribagiza was ranked first after establishing a telephone program while at the same time helping young operators.
Iribagiza feuded with iron fists against Davis Musinguzi and Emmanuela Gonahasa, both from Uganda.
After 13 weeks, 24 winners of the Commonwealth of the East Africa have exposed a variety of ideas on trade especially in agriculture, developing a program of mobile telephones, entertainment, construction, education, industrialization etc.
Participants in this competition were chosen by an advisory board of experts from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. They toured the sub-region of East Africa in carrying on business as market research, economics and management by television.
During the ceremony attended by various authorities, the Prime Minister, Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi pledged the support of the Rwandan government in this project that is timely.
“Inspire Africa”, he said, comes at time when Rwanda is facing the fight against youth unemployment.
He asked the winners in this competition to demonstrate their experiences and knowledge gained by “Inspire Africa” to develop their countries.
Musinguzi Davis, who made the final, also held the promise of 50,000 U.S. dollars by the telecommunications company “Warid” of Uganda to implement its project to improve health services.Different companies have pledged $ 15,000 to Emmanuela Gonahasa to assist its project capacity building in small children.
Clarisse Iribagiza, champion of the competition, is program director of telephony called HeHe Ltd and is part of the association ‘i-hills “of young entrepreneurs working in ICT.
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