The youngest population across the globe is found in Africa and in Zimbabwe youths constitute more than 65% of the population. On our forum, youths are more than 75% and the forum essentially implying that ZBIN is a youths forum.
Despite being in the majority, youths have few viable business forums they lead and champion their causes. They face a plethora of challenges such as Access to Capital, Access to Markets, Access to workspaces and a supportive environment. How many business forums from youths are you aware of? So to assist youths empowerment, on the 25th of November at Rokpa Centre, an interim committee was elected to lead Young Zbinites.
It is led by James Mupudzi and seeks to help youths to solve the challenges they face in business. Currently the Young Zbinites Forum has 667 members but expected to increase to 5000 members by the end of 2024. The first project the youths will work on is acquisition of a small piece of land in the peri-urban areas of Harare.
The place will then be used for small businesses events. ZBIN which holds tens of events such as Business Showers, Mumpreneurs Market Fairs, Chapter Meetings and End of Year parties—will be the first client of the Young Zbinites. This way we help in the growth of the initiative before they scale up.
The good news about the Young Zbinites is that they will leverage on the existing solid digital infrastructure ZBIN has built over the past 9 years. Therefore congratulations to the young ones in business and we are looking forward to your success in 2024 and beyond.
