Youth Wing

Many young Nigerians have finished school but cannot find work. Others have ideas and talent but no mentor, network, or platform to bring them to life. Too many feel shut out of decisions that shape their future.

Frustration without opportunity can push young people toward crime, drugs, or dangerous migration. But the same energy, when channeled well, builds businesses, communities, and a stronger nation.

The Youth Wing channels that energy into skills, enterprise, leadership, and active citizenship.

The Youth Wing treats young people as partners, not just beneficiaries. Its programs combine practical skills, mentorship, and real opportunity, and young people help design and lead them. Every training track ends with a pathway: an internship, a job, a business, or a leadership role.

CARES Youth Accelerator: a cohort program combining tech and creative skills, mentorship, and placement into internships or enterprise support, run with tech hubs and industry partners.

Leadership & Civic Training: Programs that build confidence, public speaking, teamwork, and an understanding of how government works.

Mentorship Network: Connecting young people with professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders who guide their growth.

Tech & Creative Skills: Training in coding, digital marketing, content creation, graphic design, and other in-demand skills.

Job Readiness & Internships: CV clinics, interview preparation, and internship placements with partner organizations.

Youth Enterprise Support: Helping young entrepreneurs test ideas, access funding, and grow their businesses.

Sports & Culture for Unity: Tournaments and cultural events that bring young people together across communities.

Federal Ministry of Youth Development, NITDA and digital talent programs, tech hubs, employers, creative industry bodies, and corporate sponsors.

Quality: training partners vetted and outcomes tracked.

Safeguarding: mentors vetted.

Fair access: open, published selection criteria for every cohort.

Picture a young graduate who has spent two years job hunting. Through the Youth Wing, she gains digital marketing skills, is matched with a mentor, and lands an internship that becomes a job. A year later, she is mentoring others. That is how one opportunity becomes many.