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Nescafé’s Get Started Challenge finalists announced
Nestle Ghana Africa 0 minutes read
Accra, Ghana– Nescafé announced the four finalists of the 2015 Get Started Challenge, an initiative that aims to inspire young African entrepreneurs to generate innovative ideas that will create value for society.
Between April and June, almost 2,000 of ideas in the areas of technology, health, art and culture, community development and the environment, were collected from 18 to 30 year olds across Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.
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- After a rigorous selection process, the public voted for the top four entries on the brand’s Facebook page:
Dare Adu, a young man from Nigeria, aims to help widows and orphans to become financially independent through a healthy snack business.
Moïse Compaoré, from Burkina Faso, wants to help reduce the number of avoidable deaths by providing key medicines to patients in emergency wards.
Ivorian Pierre Nahoa intends to create a platform providing local language courses in Côte d'I