2013 Focus: Entrepreneurship.
Prize:
1. $1,000.
2. All expenses paid trip to Abakaliki, a peaceful, serene, agricultural and limestone rich city in Southern Nigeria (from any country in Africa).
3. An interactive session with 50 intelligent Nigerian youths to encourage intercultural dialogue.
4. A dinner party in honour of the winner - presentation of the prize money, certificate and plaque.
Topic: 'The economy of the world is driven by entrepreneurs, and Africa has a lot to learn by tapping into the potentials inherent in entrepreneurship to ensure profound economic and infrastructural development, but in the past, there has been a continuous decline in the efforts of governments and organizations in directing the minds of their youths and populace towards entrepreneurship development, as a young entrepreneur, what factors do you think mitigate against the economic development of your country? How does these factors transcend to other African countries? And what measures can the government adopt to encourage economic and infrastructural development through entrepreneurship? What can you do or is presently doing to contribute towards Africa’s emergence as the leading economic power in the world?'
Rules
Please read these guidelines carefully before applying for this contest.
1. Prize money - $1,000
2. Entry is free for African youths only.
3. Entrants must be African youths between the ages of 18 – 35.
4. Entrants must reside in an African country.
5. Entrants must show an evidence of originating from an African country as soon as announced as one of the shortlists.
6. Winner must be willing to travel to Abakaliki, the capital city of Ebonyi State, Nigeria if invited to do so. (The organizers reserve the right not to invite the winner in any given year, but may decide to wire the prize money to the winner’s account wherever he is in the world).
7. Essay must not be more than 2000 words, and not less than 1500 words long.
8. Essays must be the original work of the entrant and must be unpublished anywhere prior to submission, either in part, except or in full.
9. Essays to include a cover page, bearing the entrants name, email address, phone contacts, physical address, age, sex, country of origin, country of residence and passport number (if any).
10. Entries to be emailed to: uzoigweelechihumanityproject@gmail.com
11. All entries to be typed in MS-Word and sent in as an attachment.
12. Entries to be submitted from July 2nd and on or before 6pm August 2nd 2013.
13. All entries are to be judged blind.
14. Multiple entries are discouraged and will automatically disqualify the entrant.
15. Between 10 to 20 best essays entered for any given year to be published in a booklet which will be shared free to youths all over Africa.
16. Staff of Ugreen Foundation, the organizers of the project, and their families are ineligible to apply. All inquiries as regards the Uzoigwe Elechi Humanity Project to be directed to ‘The Project Officer, Ugreen Foundation Nigeria’ email: info@ugreenfoundation.org
What the judges will be looking for:
1. Essay must show potentials to addressing the issue in focus.
2. Essay to highlight the efforts the author has engaged in or is currently employing to ensuring entrepreneurship revolution in his/her country, vis-à-vis the African continent.
3. Essay must reflect the current economic trends in Africa.
4. Essay to portray accuracy of words and good use of expression.
What are you waiting for? Start working on your essay, my friend!
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