The Youth Entrepreneurs for Africa (YEA) are a group of North Shore high school students dedicated to making a difference for people living in extreme poverty. They have started an initiative to launch their own social enterprise in Ghana in partnership with Create Change, a Vancouver-based registered charity that works to create sustainable change for people living in poverty in Ghana, West Africa.
The social enterprise they plan to launch is the Ghana Food Truck Project, which will provide skills and business training opportunities for girls living in extreme poverty. Any profit made will be reinvested into girls’ empowerment programs run by Create Change. Their team in Vancouver will raise the funds to purchase the food trucks, and pay for the training of students, initial operation costs and the necessary marketing to launch the food truck business. In order to achieve this goal, the team will need to raise $50,000.
After an initial planning period and program launch, YEA will begin fundraising this month with community events across the North Shore, Christmas email campaigns and more. The team is super excited to start making their goal a reality.
