The winning team
An all-female team from Kinbu SHS has won the 2022/23 pitch finals of the Enterprise Challenge organised by Prince’s Trust International (PTI), in partnership with Fidelity Bank Ghana and Environment 360
The winning team presented an innovative green business concept of turning palm kernel waste into briquettes to replace the use of charcoal and wood cooking fuel.
Team Mervs from Kinbu S.H.S., Team Doyen from Sacred Heart S.H.S., Teams Texco and Flow from His Majesty’s S.H.S and Team Phoenix from Brainy Brain S.H.S participated in the finals.
They were given four sessions with a green business mentor to support each team to fine-tune their business ideas with particular emphasis on a cost and profit structure and effective sales pitching techniques.
Founder of Fidelity Bank and a member of the Prince’s Trust International Africa Advisory Board, Edward Effah, expressed his delight with the diligence and business acumen demonstrated by the students.
“Looking at the ideas presented by our students today, I can confidently say that Ghana indeed has a bright future. The ability of these young ones to develop environmentally friendly green business ideas and the confidence with which they articulated these ideas is quite impressive. I am particularly impressed with their level of environmental awareness, and I believe such programmes will go a long way to help Ghana and Africa achieve the SDGs,” he said.
For their prize, the team received seed money from Fidelity Bank to start the process of registering their business and to build on their business idea and turn it into a viable commercial entity.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri