Youth Empowerment - Entrepreneurship

Do you know the incentives for being a young entrepreneur?

Well lets step back wards and review benefits or policies advantageous to begin an entrepreneur

For recent grads who may not have a job waiting on the other end of that diploma, entrepreneurship offers a number of benefits: one of which is a chance to erase some of your student-loan debt. Starting this year, young entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan, which supports young college students that are looking to start a business, join a startup or work in the public service by making Federal student loan repayment manageable.

President Barack Obama first announced the student loan-forgiveness program in October of last year. Under the plan, borrowers’ payments would be capped at 10 percent of their discretionary income — that is a person’s income after accounting for other living costs. The new measures would also shorten the forgiveness timeline to 20 years from 25 years.

Research Research and Research - Find out all the opportunities available to you and use them.

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Support and do encourage all young entrepreneurs By Miz O.

Youth Empowerment - Employment - Part 1

How do you encourage young people to do their best? Create an environment ripe for their leadership? Ensure that they can safely experiment and succeed in developing stronger skills and confidence.

As a young professional I know that I can contribute to youth empowerment by providing various links to interesting organization, business opportunities, career opportunities both internationally and domestically (U.S) where every young professional can tap into these resources in order to achieve their set goal.

I will be addressing various issues, however I will start with the #1 most requested issues for youth and young adult

EMPLOYMENT !!

Check out the links to these opportunities Google these companies, copy and past these link online, Research Research and Research, See if these opportunities are a good fit for what you are looking for and if so purse them relentlessly and the process can be very daunting but always rewarding at the end.
By Miz O

Here are the links: 

3M Strategic Business Development Program
3M Strategic Communications Program (Marketing)
Abbott Professional Development Program (Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Management, Operations)
Adidas Business Management Program
ADM Leadership Development Program (Corporate Finance, Strategic Planning)
Aegon Leadership Development Program
Airbus Direct Entry Graduate Program
Air Products MBA Career Development Program
Air Products HR Career Development Program
Amazon Human Resources Leadership Development Training Program and Pathways/Operations Rotational Program
AMD Human Resources Rotational Training Program

Are we choosing to neglect the colonization of Africa by China?

Obviously, China hasn't occupied any African country. And as a country with a deep historical memory of being colonized by Western powers, China doesn't want to control Africa's economic and political systems.

But what is China-Africa‘s relationship really about? It is already evident what the Chinese are getting from Africa. The Chinese economy has an sultry appetite for all the resources of Africa - timber, iron ore, diamonds, copper oil, and other raw materials of interest for China’s industries. Currently China imports more oil from Angola than it does from Saudi Arabia. 

The potential of this relationship for African economies and more importantly the people of Africa are still unclear. China imported 38 million tons of crude oil from Africa in 2005, and has made major investments in oil and gas projects in countries like Angola, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Chinese manufacturers continue to traverse the continent in search of new markets.  

China has poured billions of dollars in aid and cheap loans for upgrading roads, ports, railways, telephone lines, power stations and other key infrastructure across Africa.
Cases of human rights abuses have arisen from the China-Africa adventure. African workers have protested against ill-treatment and poor pay by Chinese companies, as well as the influx of Chinese workers who take away their jobs. In July, hundreds of African workers at a Chinese-owned Zambian mine rioted over low wages. 

With the new African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, completely constructed by Chinese workers and funded entirely by China to a total of $200m (£127m), a very expensive gift to African leaders, I wonder how they can logically evaluate this China-Africa relationship without being biased.  So here are my questions on this issue; 

• How does China-Africa relationship, effect indigenous African workers?

• How does Africa-China relationship, effect Africa-America business relationship?

• Who benefits the most from this relationship – China or Africa?

• What are African leaders doing to create a win-win strategy with China?

 
Please feel free to share on thoughts on this issue below; Thoughts By - Miz O