WAVE IN THE NEWS

Tackling Africa's "unemployable" challenge:

http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2015/09/29/tackling-africas-unemployable-challenge

"Clearly there are not enough jobs to absorb the 40+ million unemployed young people in West Africa alone, but this does not mean we cannot start with filling positions that do exist. The young workplace entrants of today are the potential employers and entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Since WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), a social venture in partnership with the Aspen Institute’s New Voices, launched its training programs two years ago, we have trained over 300 unemployed young people — two-thirds of whom don't have a university degree. We have placed 70 percent of our alumni in entry-level jobs"www.waveacademies.org