The youth build up initiative was birthed with sole aim of addressing the unemployability status of Nigerian youths after school having acquired the necessary skills in a particular field through empowerment, education and awareness programs. This Project aims at educating, empowering and creating awareness of the importance of soft skills for example effective communication, power of team work, empathy, conflict resolution when used in conjunction with hard skills acquired from school. This project is designed specifically for young Nigerians in senior secondary schools and tertiary institution leveraging on the wide use of electronic gadgets among this set of students targeted.

The project seeks to promote the employability quality of students graduating from schools through build up of character traits and interpersonal skills that reflects resourcefulness, ethical behaviour, productivity, empathy making use of online seminars, online capacity training, online competitions using platforms which are easily accessible by the targeted population which will drive social impact in any field of work where the students find themselves. The goal of this project is to increase young school leavers suitability for employment in the global work/business world. This project will first target senior secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the city of Calabar, Nigeria.