equipping youths with
entrepreneurial skills

GET currently focuses on equipping youths with entrepreneurial skills regardless of their gender or community of origin. Since its inception, GET has benefited immensely from selfless and voluntary contributions of many people and organizations

OUR HISTORY

The actual conception of GET may be traced back to the day that Dr Jessica Hamadziripi defended her International Relations Doctorate thesis titled “Poverty Eradication in Zimbabwe: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through home-grown business approaches”. Her thesis supervisor encouraged her to start an organization along the lines of the recommendations she advanced in the thesis. She was reluctant for she had not planned on taking this route. Nonetheless, in mid-2014 friends of hers, Andy and Rose, unaware of the suggestion from her supervisor, encouraged her to start an organization that could empower her citizens.

However, due to lack of training in human development, she did not contemplate venturing into such a territory. Her decision to start GET was ignited after she visited downtown Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe and saw youths loitering aimlessly. She felt she could not sit back and watch the youth struggling. Dr Hamadziripi was convinced that with good training, the youths could be profitably occupied through starting and operating sustainable businesses.

It Only Takes You!

GET was registered as a Non-Profit Trust in 2016 and training of youths started in February 2017 in Hatcliffe, Harare. GET currently focuses on equipping youths with entrepreneurial skills regardless of their gender or community of origin.

GENESIS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRUST

Dr Hamadziripi then researched on how to train and empower the youth. When she realized that gaps existed in the education and industry sectors of Zimbabwe, she undertook training in youth development. Whilst she continued with the research, she registered GET. Armed with the training she was getting on youth development, combined with her desire to assist the youth and the encouragement from family and friends, she proceeded to establish Genesis Entrepreneurship Trust (GET).

Thus GET was registered as a non-profit Trust in 2016 and the training of youths started in February 2017 in Hatcliffe, Harare. GET currently focuses on equipping youths with entrepreneurial skills regardless of their gender or community of origin. Since its inception, GET has benefited immensely from selfless and voluntary contributions of many people and organizations.

Why do we need capacity building?

Capacity building is important because it encourages the youths to have the confidence to start and run sustainable businesses. In addition, capacity building in form of youth training is important because it provides household income (create employment), develops communities, and contributes to the economic development of the nation

Trustees

The board of trustees of GET is responsible for overseeing the operations of the organization and assuring the organization's conformance with the law and donor specific expectations.

Administrators

The administrators of GET are passionate about the empowerment of youths and youth development.

Trainers

GET works with qualified and experienced trainers who have a desire to develop young citizens in all communities to become entrepreneurs, reliable citizens and income generators

Mentors

We work with both male and female mentors who are experienced entrepreneurs or industrialists, who walk with the youths in training in order to assist them to grasp business concepts better

Coaching

The youth in training attend coaching sessions to enable them to master entrepreneurial and business techniques

About Us

GET is a non-profit Trust registered in 2016. The founder, Dr Jessica Hamadziripi, was moved by the plight of the vulnerable youth who had no source of income and spent time on the streets of Harare without gaining income. GET was born out of her commitment to empower the youth and from the support she received from her husband.

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