New Africa Foundation set to give GHC1,000,000 to a team of students to start a business

The New Africa Foundation (NAF), a Ghanaian-based self-funded organization dedicated to addressing socio- economic issues in Africa, is set to give GHc1,000,000 to a team of students to start a business.

The foundation, will do this through an inter-university competition dubbed the University Challenge, a 10-to-13 week competition designed to recruit the best brains from selected universities across the Country, to brainstorm execution solutions to real life challenges of Ghanaian communities, feeding off the course the students are offered with the schools they attend.

A University Challenge student is expected-alongside a team of their interconnected peers-to develop an incubator for theoretical solutions and apply them to real world problems. The Challenge is an initiative of the New Africa Foundation which envisions a transformative departure from the conventional approach of obtaining degrees solely for job-seeking purposes to cultivating entrepreneurs and fostering leadership and wealth creation.

Students who are willing to participate in the reality show must be a student of any of the selected schools working with the Foundation and must be selected by the scouting team as an eligible candidate during the casting sessions.

Again students must be smart, entrepreneurial, solutions oriented, a team player and a leader amongst others. Selected candidates will be required to form and brand their teams, brainstorm an execution plan to the task given, give team roles based on the task and execute the task to their utmost abilities.

Interested students can follow The University Challenge on social media, or look out for information about the casting session in their school.