HipCity Innovation Centre

A CSO-Social Enterprise that supports and focuses on youth empowerment and community rights) proposes to undertake a research work on urban slums in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja to explore possible sustainable clean businesses and skills needed in rural-ghetto areas (popularly described as indigenous urban slums) so as to guide the locals (mostly women and restless youth) into arriving at identified problems, common challenges, as well as new opportunities. The end would be the creation of a new values and a systematic and strategic manner to amplify local voices, create platform, network for skill acquisition for the youths and women via pressing new demand to the government and constituency representatives ahead of the 2019 election; unlike old norms where restless ghetto youths and women sell their votes and become social vices for political elites.