Welcome to the Youth Cooperative and Enterprise Academy, a program of the African Youth Development Foundation designed to jumpstart socio-economic reforms among youths through massive enterprise development and financing.

Mission Statement:

Our mission is to provide young people across the African Continent with the skillsets and funds they need to become successful entrepreneurs, innovators and business owners.

This is because, we envision an African economy that is driven by young people, who are successful in their various enterprises, adding values and solving the continent’s critical socio-economic challenges.

Through this specialized training and fundraising program, our participants shall:

• Be exposed to how they can create jobs for themselves;
• Learn how to turn their passions into business ventures;
• Acquire skills they need to build successful enterprises;
• Raise funds they need to establish their enterprises, effortlessly.