After having successfully organized 3 technical skills competitions in Nigeria, iCreate Africa led a delegation to participate at the world’s biggest technical and vocational skills competition, the World Skills 2019 in Kazan, Russia, on 22-27 August.

From Left: Bright Jaja Ceo iCreate Africa, Anne Dirkling ED iCreate Africa, Yusuf Kwande iCreate Board Member, Malissa Onojo iCreate Skills champion tailoring.

Established in 1950, World Skills is the collective voice for skills excellence in technical and service-oriented careers around the globe.

WorldSkills, the World Cup of vocational professions, took place for the first time in the Russian Federation and featured an industrial exhibition and Conference while youth between 18-23 years from over 60 member countries competed against each other in Carpentry, Automobile Technology, Fashion Technology, Cloud Computing, Water Technology, Floristy, Freight Forwarding, Beauty Therapy etc. for 4 days.

The week-long global event was well attended by private sector stakeholders, governments, international organizations, TVET institutions, youth activists, philanthropists and investors.

Since inception, iCreate Africa has transformed the face of skills and led the discourse of Nigeria becoming the leading force in skills development in Africa through successful competitions, upskilling and training, promotions of the winning entrepreneurs through media campaigns. The social enterprise also launched the iCreate Magazine, with a mobile application and Skill Hub in the pipeline.

Part of the delegation was ICreate beneficiary Malissa Onojo, known by her fashion brand Oh! Tailor @oh_tailor, winner of the first iCreate Skill Fest 2018 in the category of Garment Making and Tiza Nege, winner of the Website Category.

Thanks to the support of iCreate’s partner in Fashion, The Fashion Academy Abuja (TFA) and the Benue State Government, both champions were opportuned to witness the Olympics of Skills while ICreate networked with potential partners and investors in the skills eco-system, learnt best practices and discuss pan-African collaborations for the upcoming National Finale of the ICreate Skill Fest on 4-5th December 2019 in Lagos.