Below are the profiles  of the 2020 Africa Youth Awards nominees for the Startup of the Year

 

Category Definition:

This category is dedicated to honouring a Young African Company (Startup) which is gradually creating immerse change across the continent through Solutions, Employment and opportunities and does stand the chance to become a giant across the world.

 

NB: Profiles were submitted by nominators

 

NOMINEES:

 

AJ WILLZ MEDIA

AJ Willz Media is a digital creative and branding firm. The company was started in 2016 and has grown over the years with experience in the creative design and branding industry and has worked with very notable companies, persons and institutions both local and international.  Our main core value is to transform ideas of a brand into creative designs with brand intelligence and innovation. AJ Willz Media has been nominated in a few awards schemes like FN Business Awards, Eastern Region Tertiary Awards.

We have also worked with some of the top awards in the country namely; Ghana events Awards, Eastern Music Awards, Eastern Region Media Excellence Awards,  Ghana Industry CEO Awards.”

 

ECOGENIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED     

Ecogenic Solutions is a startup social enterprise that recycles food wastes into eco-friendly and 100% safe domestic cleaning solutions with which he has been able to provide over 200 Indirect jobs to fruit and vegetable sellers in his vicinity and also recycle over 730KG of fruit and vegetable waste.

 

DEPENDABLE TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED    

Dependable Technologies Company limited is into the manufacturing of incubator for hatching eggs, rice thresher, maize thresher, hydrator, seed planter, biofil digester, solar panels and the like. This company has been able to manufacture incubator to assist poultry farmers to hatch their eggs, production maize and rice thresher, hydrator.

 

 

INCLUSION HEALTH

Inclusion health is an African start-up dedicated to fighting the covid 19 with a special focus on persons with disabilities. The aim is to ensure that everyone has access to health care services including education. Their many focus is improving the lives of persons with disabilities, they make face masks and hand sanitizers using local materials. They believe everyone can and they leave no one behind in all that they do.

 

 

INNER MUZIQ       

Njabulo and Paul started inner muziq together as producers in 2012 and they produce beats. They have started their studio and allow people to record and they produce music

 

 

KONETA HUB        

Koneta Hub (initiative) is created to mentor young people through ICT, Peace and Entrepreneurship.

They believe in innovation and creative thinking. They believe every young person has a solution to the socio-economic problems facing our community when given the opportunity to bring it (solution) out. Koneta develops skills.

Koneta runs an offline digital library in Juba, giving access to information for those who can not afford the expensive internet connectivity.

 

 

MAKYS CONCEPT           

Makys Concept is a fashion brand which focuses on the production and designing of beaded jewelries and fascinators for women and bracelets for men.

Makys Concept organized a 2-day free virtual training on where 204 participants across Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon where taught fascinator making in September 2020.

 

PAMBOU AGRO LIMITED

Pambou Agro Limited is a young company which dedicates its expertise in responsible agro-food transformation. And, this, to support the vision of the Congolese government, to achieve food self-sufficiency. We offer several products, among others: fish-based flour, corn, wheat, soy, rice, and vegetables; cholesterol-free peanut oil; peanut butter; margarine butter; couscous; biogas, etc. To provide my expertise for the development of African youth, I am a project analyst on the www.kawalis.net platform and I am a mentor on the Entrepreneurs Futures Network platform.

 

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