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There's a lot of dormant workforce in Africa as many of them face unemployment and low pay this is a huge problem so I started this thread to see if anyone has ideas that might address this issue
I used to hire university-educated English-speaking Kenyans as content writers before ChatGPT.
Many African countries are struggling because they have an educated labor force but they lack opportunities. There are many reasons for this, but it's mainly that the local economy simply doesn't need people with those skills. Service-based economies exist in richer countries because there are companies and organizations that need that labor.
A lot of them are finding success on PeoplePerHour, Upwork, and Fiverr. They've found that being part of the "cheap freelance" labor market can make them enough to sustain themselves at home. It's not hard to get enough freelance work to make $500-1000 USD/month, and that might be enough. But you gotta speak English and speak it well. And you gotta have a skill that the global market wants. You gotta be willing to work in those time zones, too.
There's a market for helping Africans reach the global market. English courses are probably the first step (@Isaac Odongo made one and is selling multiple copies a week now). Then they need to learn how to pick up skills on their own and how to leverage the skills they already have. Many Africans don't have a great PC setup so a lot of them have to go somewhere to use a PC.
The global market needs labor, but it doesn't need all labor. The Western world is suffering from labor shortages in nursing, construction, childcare, and more. If there was a way for an African to start selling construction labor in Western countries, they'd probably do pretty well. You just can't do these things online, you gotta go to the country, you gotta have legal status in that country.
It's not an impossible situation, but if there were enough resources to help Africans actually tap into what the global market needs, more of them would be able to sustain themselves.
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