The Luanda Entrepreneur Academy (AEL), located in the city of Talatona, south of the capital, and with a capacity for 250 students in three shifts, was inaugurated by the governor of Luanda province, Joana Lina Baptista.
EAL, which has the support of the National Institute of Employment and Professional Training (Inefop), will train young people in the fields of technology, cutting and sewing, hairdressing, cooking, financial literacy, business incubators, among others.
"At the end of the theoretical-practical training period [three months], the academy will facilitate the formation of companies and businesses, whether individually or collectively, and will then take the ideas with the greatest potential to enter our incubator" , stated the director of AEL, Inocêncio das Neves.
The academy after the incubation phase, he explained, "is going to do institutional diplomacy work, is going to do facilitation with investors, with financiers who have available resources, but have difficulties in identifying initiatives with potentials".
The governor of Luanda, Joana Lina Baptista, considered AEL as a "long-awaited gift" for the young people of the capital in April (youth month).
"A dream that needed to be realized. We all know what we expect from the academy, the partnerships that are signed, realized, will be able to provide the technical and professional skills that young people need to walk", she stressed.
The venture also has the support of the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP).
According to the UNDP deputy representative in Angola, Mamisoa Rangers, who intervened at the institution's inauguration ceremony, the United Nations agency "will support the operationalization of the AEL, aiming at promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment".
This cooperation between the institutions, pointed out the UNDP representative, envisages "supporting AEL in all of its fundamental pillars, including a model of sustainable strategic functioning, which includes the structuring of its incubator".
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Ana Paula do Sacramento Neto, recalled that the public institution was expected by young people since 2019, considering that its implementation constitutes a "motivating factor" for young people.
"This will bring motivation to young people who try to undertake and sometimes do not have the training and here they will turn their dreams into reality," she said.
The academy, whose classes will start next week, is aimed at teenagers and young people over 14 years old and with minimal qualifications at the level of 8th grade, and mastery of mathematics, science and arts.
