Girl Hub Magazine – Rwanda
For the last 6 months we have been traveling to find projects in countries, we think are interesting from an innovation, community, and economics perspective. As we move forward with THECUBE and WECREATE, we would like to find answers for some of the big questions, which have become increasingly relevant. What are the elements which create a healthy economy? How to create healthy communities? Can we teach innovation? Can we create an entrepreneurial mindset? How do we create better tools to help empower people in rising economies?
The journey will be exploratory as we want the answers to come via experiments and observation rather than through dictation.
India
In partnership with Vanilla Ventures, Generation is a new overseas volunteering programme aimed at building communities and enhancing careers.
Areas of Interest
Community Building: Children gain broader horizons from exposure to other cultures. School staff gain new skills.Communities gain fresh perspectives and new ideas.
Education: Volunteers return and are coached to plan their career, supported to consolidate their skills by sharing them with the next generation, and inspired to make a proposal for community development.
Peru
We are working with Casa Mantay, which is a girls centre in Cuzco Peru. The centre is small and it houses 13-17 girls, who are pregnant as a result of rape. Raquel, who runs the house takes care of the girls from their personal development, health to economic sustainability. We have partnered with Harvard based NGO, Circle of Women to help the centre grow.
Areas of Interest
Education: We will need help creating a relevant and unique educational program.
Wellbeing: Create a program that helps the girls move from trauma to health.
Enterprise: The centre has a shop, which needs business strategy and creative input.
Rwanda
This is a much macro project that the aforementioned projects. We will be starting with an innovation lab in Rwanda, so we can discover their dreams and ambitions. From there we will form projects, which will be led by Rwandese entrepreneurs and supported by members of THECUBE & WECREATE.
Areas of Interest
Entrepreneurial Mind Set: Creating and giving people tools, which will empower entrepreneurs turn their ideas into sustainable businesses.
Innovation: Creating neurological based tools to help Rwandese entrepreneurs create innovation.
Economy: Study and observer how Rwanda generates economy
Manufacturing & Engineering: Gaining vocational and technological skills to generate high impact ideas.
UK
For the past two years we have collaborated with Consurgo and Bracket to deliver a holistic programme, called INCUB8, which helps young people create their own economy.
Areas of Interest
Entrepreneurial Mind Set: Creating and giving people tools, which will empower entrepreneurs turn their ideas into sustainable businesses.
Youth Development: Helping young people create a better future.
Why We’re Doing It?
- Why not?
- Open our minds
- Learn more pragmatic ways of thinking from the other communities
- International collaborations
- Learn about how others innovate and learn new tools
- Generate new ideas
- Create a more dynamic internal community
- New thoughts and experience
- Become less insular
- Freedom from restrictions we place on ourselves
- Exercise altruistic behaviour
- To inspire and be inspired
How To Get Involved
Either through our membership or fellowship you can volunteer your time and resources. We are looking for people who want to create lasting social impact through donating their time, resources, skills. This is also a great opportunity to work and meeting with interesting and innovative people. We need people who give their time pro bono in the following areas ..
Education Design Engineering
Business growth Drupal Neuroscience
Marketing Graphics Psychology
Branding Video + Media Trauma
Health Community Development Risk management
Wellbeing High Tech Copywriting