{"id":1839,"date":"2023-03-08T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T10:08:16","slug":"yepi-summit-underscores-the-need-to-embrace-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/yepi-summit-underscores-the-need-to-embrace-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>YEPI Summit underscores the need to embrace entrepreneurship<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Brenda Webbo<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youths have been urged to embrace entrepreneurship to boost the country&#8217;s economic growth during the Youth Empowerment Programme Initiative (YEPI) summit at City Blue Creekside Hotel in Mombasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amani Katana, YEPI Executive Director, advised young men and women to embrace technology and entrepreneurship to tackle the country&#8217;s high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the press at the summit, Katana said the youth should use their initiatives and innovations rather than depend on public and private institutions for employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that YEPI programmes encourage young people to regain control of their lives through entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katana further stated that the youth organization came into existence to address unemployment, poverty and extreme violence among the youth in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khadija Abdalla, YEPI Programme Coordinator, said the business summit is a networking platform for entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, corporate and government leaders committed to supporting and developing entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She encouraged youths to take a leading role in entrepreneurship activities to improve their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Abdalla added that the conference aims to find solutions to the unemployment situation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor Owino, Founder and director of Trek Africa, a tour and travel firm, said the conference gave the young entrepreneurs the mindset of becoming the shapers of their destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that through the YEPI forums, entrepreneurs learn how to position their products and make them stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is Promoting Sustainable Entrepreneurship Driver for Growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youths have been urged to embrace entrepreneurship to boost the country&#8217;s economic growth during the Youth Empowerment Programme Initiative (YEPI) summit at City Blue Creekside Hotel in Mombasa.<\/p>\n<p>Amani Katana, YEPI Executive Director, advised young men and women to embrace technology and entrepreneurship to tackle the country&#8217;s high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,96,49,30,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giliticsmedia.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}