Team AgriLab, having been selected from a poll of over 200,000 applicants to participate in Hult Prize Regional Finals in London, made a detour to Kuala Lumpur where they came out as the sole winners of the competition.
The winning team from the University of Ghana was represented by Nana Akua Afriyie Busia who is the Leader, Isaac Kojo Aboah, Henry Duah and Daniel Kwame Afriyie.
They were the only team from Africa and proudly beat 61 teams to top the competition.
This has earned them a pass to the Hult Prize Accelerator in London and a final pitch for a million dollars in New York.
The theme for this year’s edition is “For Us, By Us” – Solving Youth Unemployment and it is targeted at creating a business venture which can provide 10,000 young people with jobs over the next decade.
The Hult Prize competition is the World’s largest student movement for social good, started by Ahmed Ashkar and Bertil Hultz in 2009 in partnership with the Hult Prize Business School and the United Nations.
Team AgriLab has been the delight of many upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, because of their uniformity in attire, which depicted a sense of Africanism and unity.
By: Kekeli Kuatsenu/awakenewsonline.com