If you ever wanted to visit rural areas where the locals will host you, where you will find local motivation and investment opportunities that helps reduce international migration, here is a chance to come with us.
The last available data says 1.8 billion young people in the world live in rural areas of low and middle-income countries. This is according to the UN.
Nigeria has a population of over 200 million people with fewer developed cities. Lagos is the city with the largest population in the South-West geopolitical region with about 15 million people, most of whom migrated from various rural areas of the country’s various geopolitical regions. The migration from the rural places in the “South-East” to urban cities in the “South-West” covers a travel time of about 50 minutes by air between 6 – 8 hours by public bus.
We focus on a communities located within maximum of 30 minutes drive away from the South-East region’s capital city of Owerri in Imo state where due to it’s international airports and proximity to the seat of government. The State is also gearing up for digital economy.
The trend of South-East rural to South-West urban migration occurs among 4 of every 6 rural residents who have completed secondary school education in the community. There is certainly a drain of resources from the community. We want to reduce this.
Without meaningful engagement in the rural places, youths are forced to migrate to urban cities where they contribute to urban economy more than they contribute to their own communities. While some migrate to urban cities to learn trade, computer programming, hacking, graphic designs and other skills, some of the talents eventually become a power house for internet based schemes. This is an age-long trend that we aim to break using collaboration, mentorship, technology and connectivity.
Through partnerships, we will be able to set up a functional rural tech start up where the youths would be gainfully engaged and contribute positively to the global space from a computer in their own villages.
The rural-urban migration of youths certainly harms the rural communities in an irreversible way. We fear losing the future of these communities to migration and internet-based scam. We want to collaborate with entities and individuals to reduce depopulation, improve rural education quality and contribute to the global fight against cybercrimes. We also want to show you the culture, so you are welcome from every part of the world to be part of our community stories.