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The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Guyanese Alumni (YLAI Guyana) in collaboration with the U.S Embassy are looking for 38 high school-aged individuals with an interest in entrepreneurship to be a part of their upcoming “Youth Innovation Camp.”

Essentially, the two-day event will be targeting teams of high school aged students between the ages of 15 – 17 years old, who are interested in becoming social or business entrepreneurs. Its aim, to promote and foster an entrepreneurial environment amongst youths in Guyana.

Slated for December 18-20, the Youth Innovation Camp’s participants will be exposed to talks from Business Advisors and Business Leaders in various sectors across Guyana. They also will receive training on developing their business plans which act as a road map for start-up and future growth.

Additionally, participants will be able to pitch their business ideas for a chance to secure seed funding of US $1,000 to get their idea off the ground.

Meanwhile, YLAI alumna and founder of Coconut Grove Shaunda Yarde, offering some background on the initiative, told the Sunday Stabroek that after the completion of their fellowships, the team was given the opportunity to come up with something that would benefit their country.

“After YLAI we were all given the opportunity to come up with something that would benefit our country, and so we eventually submitted this as a proposal and the Embassy loved the fact that we were able to come up with a plan that would incorporate students from all the regions of Guyana and not just students from Region Three or Four,” Yarde explained.

“We are looking for kids who already have businesses or business ideas, and we are going to bring them down to Georgetown, allexpenses paid and we have them for two day camp. They are going t what entrepreneurship neurship in relation to Methods of dealing w neurships in Guyana things like failure, how business, and in additio are giving them the o win US$1,000 to go business, as part of the tition,” she added.

Commenting on t process, Yarde said the looking to select the mo feasible business propo by students, who do no have to be in the busin school. We are looking of business ideas; any business that would he their community.

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