Paynesville — TRIBE, a non-governmental organization on Thursday launched its first phase entrepreneurial academy, RE-Novate, in an effort to incorporate entrepreneurship as part of secondary curriculum education in Liberia.
The TRIBE RE-NOVATE program was launched on Thursday at the Paynesville city hall by Deputy Education Minister, Latim Dathong, and expected to work with 45 students from three private schools: Paynesville SDA, ELWA Academy and the B.W Harris Memorial School in its pilot phase.
RE-Novate is TRIBE’s novel approach to improving learning, outcomes for secondary schools exposing them to project-based curriculum that teaches entrepreneurship, digital literacy and provide personal development activities s including mentorship, internship, learning seminars, workshops, student proprovidessign, and execution.
Serving as the Chief Launcher, Minister Dathong praised TRIBE for the innovation and assured, the government support in working with the group to enhance the potential of secondary students through entrepreneurship.
“On behalf of the Ministry of Education, I want to say here that MOE will continue to partner and support programs of such in helping to solve some of the educational challenges in Liberia,” he said.
For his part, former Education Minister George Werner, serving as keynote speaker, said the program will be a great help to Liberian students in understanding the basics to think outside of the box and be self-supported through entrepreneurship.
“I encourage you to seize the moment and dare to be different in f ding solutions to solve many problems through the TRIBE RE-NOVATE program,” he said.
The CEO of TRIBE, Wainright Acquoi, said he believed that every Liberian student should be an entrepreneur and innovator to create businesses that will sustain them while learning. a
“We believe that every student should be an entrepreneur and our promise is to deliver a model that makes this possible,” he said.