The Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP)
Our Vision:
Kate Bee Foundation is built on the principle of ‘freely you have received, freely give’, We are committed to translating youths from poverty to sustainable prosperity.
Our Belief:
- Men and women are equal but different.
- An equal opportunity-friendly environment is the bedrock of a sustainable human development
- All men and women, as well as boys and girls, are endowed with potentials to live poverty-free lives
Our Strategy:
Kate Bee Foundation adopts the empowerment approach which is constructed on the following three pillars:
- Spiritual development: Faith in God and belief in the Lord Jesus
- Social development: Functional and flexible education
- Economic development: Trade and investment
Target audience: Under 25 year old graduates of tertiary institutions
Duration: 3-5 years
Activities:
The programme is carefully conceived with monitoring, mentoring and follow-up mechanisms embedded to ensure sustainability. The principal activities include:
Phase 1: Breaking the fallow ground:- This is a one-week business and leadership training workshop that aims to reorient, reposition and transform the mentality of youths to a ‘can do’ and ‘giving’ focus, both of which are key to the attainment of the expected results of YEP.
Phase 2: Learning by doing:- This is a three-month practical laboratory period aimed at enabling beneficiaries to put the skills acquired in phase one into practise in a ‘laboratory’ environment. Due to the sustainability aim of the Foundation, a strict elimination process is applied to ensure that only serious minded and dedicated grantees are retained at this phase.
Phase 3: Joining the millionaire club:- Beneficiaries are given a grant (minimum of 1 million Naira) and closely guided, for a six year period, to develop and manage medium enterprises. They are obliged to participate in a 10% saving scheme which they can only access at the end of the programme. In a bid to ‘harvest’ only the ripe crop at this critical phase, a rigorous and strict elimination process is applied.
Phase 4: Go and do likewise:- Graduates of phase three are encouraged to form philanthropic youths’ clubs and replicate the KBF process at the community levels. Beneficiaries in phase 3 are obliged to invest 10% of their income in preparation for this phase, however, as philanthropy is a thing of the heart and cannot be forced, KBF hopes to have at least 10% of the beneficiaries actively involved in philanthropy. The Foundation will work with this ‘remnant’ for a period of three years after which the youths will be able to continue on their own. KBF will, however continue to maintain contact with the youths for backstopping and networking purposes.
Expected results:
- Viable medium enterprises owned and managed by Rivers youths
- Community Foundations set up and managed by philanthropic youths
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