{"id":15570,"date":"2026-06-20T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/golden-heart-foundation-seeks-partnership-with-iita-on-youth-empowerment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:32:19","slug":"golden-heart-foundation-seeks-partnership-with-iita-on-youth-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/golden-heart-foundation-seeks-partnership-with-iita-on-youth-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Heart Foundation seeks partnership with IITA on youth empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"On 17 January, a team from the Golden Heart Foundation (GHF), led by the President, David Ogbueli, visited\u00a0IITA<\/a>\u00a0Ibadan Campus. The purpose of the visit was to seek partnership with IITA on youth empowerment.\n\nGHF is an NGO with a focus on youth value reorientation, leadership, youth empowerment, and entrepreneurial development. GHF believes that partnering with IITA would foster the development they seek through agriculture. Emphasizing this, Ogbueli said, \u201cWe are strong in national transformation; we want to bring youth out of unemployment and poverty, that\u2019s why we have come to find answers here in IITA.\u201d\n
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IITA DDG-P4D, Kenton Dashiell (center), speaking with the Golden Heart Foundation\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nKenton Dashiell<\/a>, Deputy Director General, Partnership for Delivery, related IITA\u2019s success story to inspire the team on the possibility of getting youth out of poverty through agriculture. Referring to\u00a0Jeunes agripreneurs de l'IITA<\/a>\u00a0(IYA), he said, \u201cIYA, an innovation of the current IITA DG, is an avenue where youth get experiential learning experiences across all value chains\u201d. This has made youth become actively involved in agribusiness and independent.\u201d\n\nRealizing that IITA had gone past their present phase, the GHF team requested that IITA help draft a proposal and budget for empowering a thousand youth in Ebonyi State, for a start. \u201cThe youth would be a mix of graduates, rural youth, and youth who have started their own business,\u201d Ogbueli said.\n\nDashiell promised to send a concept note including a budget, in two weeks, after a series of discussions, questions, and plans for an IITA team to visit the site for a survey. However, Dashiell advised that the project starts with a 3-year plan as it will be difficult to measure success in one year. This was especially because the team had earlier highlighted that the Ebonyi State Government is interested in the initiative, but there must be a solid independent program, before the government can be involved.\n\nDashiell also introduced the team to the Start Them Early Program (STEP) in IITA, which involves changing the mindset of students from a young age towards agriculture. In response to this, the team requested that IITA attend their 2020 National Youth Summit in Anambra State as a guest speaker, to change the mindset of youth concerning agriculture.\n\n\u201cWe look forward to a long-term partnership with IITA so that we can cause a change in Nigeria,\u201d Ogbueli said.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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