YHC: 16 Social Innovators Go Home with 500K Each in Adamawa

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The British Council and the Northeast Humanitarian Innovation Hub awarded 16 Adamawa youngsters a total of 500 Naira (N500, 000) apiece to develop their innovative ideas that either confront insecurity through their organized project; Youth Hack Challenge (YHC).

The Humanitarian Innovation Hub is a social innovation center that highlights the potential of collaboration and community participation from concept to implementation.

The ability of the Innovators to solve societal challenges with a “out-of-the-box” approach inspired by human-centered design thinking is what sets them apart as a social impact-driven innovation environment.

According to Mary Igbazua, Project Lead at Humanitarian Innovation Foundation, the “Idea pitch for the youth Hack challenge” is a program supported by the British Council and the MCN as part of the managing conflict in Nigeria fund, which is looking for new ways to address security concerns in Adamawa State.

The “out-of-the-box” approach is to create an ecosystem of young people who are passionate about community development, entrepreneurship, security, and advocating peace.

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The project has given young people the skills, experience, and opportunities they need to be self-sufficient, connect with the market, and establish and build successful businesses.

Meet the 16 Social Innovators Finalists

• CHARCOAL BRIQUETTE: Women Empowerment

Charcoal briquette is an alternative cooking fuel that is eco friendly, affordable and can be used to make life easier health wise and can also be commercialized

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Girei

 

• LIKE MINDS (Education)

Our solution is to bridge that gap by harnessing the energies and passion of these vulnerable group and channeling towards, technology, ICT and skills acquisition.

Like minds will identify and register adolescents and secondary school leavers and provide them with skills and knowledge on ICT (web design), entrepreneurship, online marketing and skills acquisition.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Yola South

 

• LIGHT UP YOLA (Insecurity)

Appointing a prosecutor responsible for dealing with robberies and theft: With the help of the government in partnership with our group (Jimeta street organization) implement national crime policy while adapting, where appropriate, to regional and local circumstances.

Campaign to lighten up the streets: With the government in partnership or funds raised we can be able to buy solar-Paneled street lights.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? No
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

• HG-INCUBATORS (Agriculture)

Our project is about production of hybrid artificial poultry egg incubators and rendering of incubation Services to both rural and urban farmers. Our product will help farmers to have easy access to incubation Services and also purchase our product which will burst their business.

Our product and services will provide employment to youths and women, reduce poverty and also burst the economy of the state.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? No
– TARGET LGA: Song

• COMMUNITY-LED GBV PREVENTION AND ERADICATION PROGRAM (Insecurity/Women’s Right)

EMPED as a gender aware organization identified problems in GBV as; increased human right violation, inadequate support for survivor resilience, survivors to victim, Community engagement intervention gap and inadequate knowledge to access GBV response mechanism.

EMPED idea is to provide the local community with technical support and awareness to prevent and approach GBV related issues via six sustainable objectives.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Girei

• FROM VICTIM TO PROBLEMS SOLVERS (Education)

We seek to address the Shilla boys’ attacks which oftentimes create huge security problem in the community.

We will identify youths that are likely to be Shilla Boys or are vulnerable to becoming Shilla boys and engage them into our character rebirth programs that will ensure mentorship and facilitate linkages for those with special skills

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? No
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

• TRICYCLE QR SECURITY (Insecurity)

The shilla boys are known for using tricycles to perpetrate crimes like armed robbery, snatching and pick-pocketing of valuables from their victims. My idea is the process of using QR codes placed on each tricycle to gain relevant information of tricycle riders you are about to board.

This information can be shared with family and friends, thereby knowing where to look or trace a culprit when a crime is been committed against you on the tricycle.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

 

• DANGER AND EMERGENCY LOCATION REPORT AND TRACKING SYSTEM: (Security)

My Project is aimed at tackling the issue of Insecurity, a case study of Shilah Gang.

Data of tricycles will be collected. This record or data will be converted into a QR Code which will be placed on every tricycle. If a passenger boards a tricycle, he will scan the QR Code (or special characters) and share the details with his family or friends. This way if he gets attacked or have his phone snatched, it can be traced back to the Tricycle operator and the criminals can be apprehended.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? No
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

• TOWN FARE (Socioeconomic)

Our Idea is a ticket-based transportation fare system that calls Town Fare. Target problem: Transportation fare hike and safety. We intend to bring a safer and cheaper transportation system by leveraging on the advertisement industry.

We will achieve that through ticket sales both physically and virtually on our mobile app. We offer advertisement service to corporate, businesses and politicians.

We include the advert both on our mobile app and on the physical ticket.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? No
– TARGET LGA: Girei

 

• MEDBASE (Heath)

MEDBase is a tech solution to ease off how hospitals collect, file, store, backup, sort, analyze and visualize hospital records including patient data, prognosis/diagnosis by doctors, tests bookings and results, payment evidencing, prescriptions and dispense of medication etc. It’s sorting, analyzing and visualization feature is also incorporated to help provide adequate data on hospital management to help direct and influence healthcare policies.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Girei

• CROSS INTERIOR (Vocational Training)

We engaged in industrial and commercial painting, Interior decorating services, painting of buildings or other structures for beautification. (At a startup level) Looking at the security challenges we’re facing in our community (Yola North) the youth gang “Sheila Boys”, we actually came up with a strategy “Skill acquisition”, we equip the youths from age 13-25 years who are staying idle with skills on painting business in general for free. “An idle mind is a devils workshop”.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

 

• JADGREEN (CIJ) (Climate Action)

Our solution (JadGreen) centres on job creation and environmental sustainability by eradicating youth unemployment through the recycling value chain in Jada LGA, Adamawa State.

We aim to engage and train youths on recycling through supply of disposable waste (such as plastics and tin) to our mini integrated warehouse. For each waste, a certain value of money would reflect the amount per supplier would get.

Already, our network can link us to some Processing companies across the country. This would boosts socio-economic growth, enhances sustainable livelihood and addresses environmental challenges within the community.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Jada

• FARM EASE ( Food Processing)

Provision of rice milling machine a rice milling machine and maize cob removal machine. The setting up of a milling and maize cob remover machines. The setting up of this machines will represent a huge relief for our youths and women who are into rice and maize farming, but have to travel a long distance and spend high to get their rice milled and maize cob removed in town.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Gombi

 

• SPEEDOGISTICS (Food Supply Chain)

Our project is about rural to urban logistics of farm produce and other rural raw materials. It is no longer hidden nowadays how much of middlemen exists in businesses and the rural-urban agric supply chain is not excluded. Our idea seeks to solve the problems of middlemen that unnecessary hijack, commandeer and negatively disrupt the agric supply chain.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Jada

 

• TRASH TO ART YOUTH EXPRESSION (Waste Management)

There has been a surge in youth restiveness, lawlessness, and violence, leading to insecurity, loss of lives and properties of people in the community. Preceptors Educational leverages on the fact that self- expression through art, enables young people express their feelings, thoughts, and desires. We plan to engage selected youths in productive, meaningful, and gainful social enterprise of up-scaling trash into creative artistic pieces.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Yola North

• YOUTHS IN CONSTRUCTION (Building and Environment)

Our organization is a youth organization which focus on delivering quality construction service, giving each client Value for their money.

We are interested in training youths to acquire different set skills in the construction industry ranging from Bricklaying, plumbing, painting, carpentering e.t.c thus rising a set of artisan with professional touch And by so doing, creating job opportunities for youths.

We believe job creation will go a long way in reducing poverty and improve the standard of living.

– PROTOTYPE AVAILABLE? Yes
– TARGET LGA: Girei

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