With your help AfriBlocks is building a Global Pan-African Freelance Network, creating a marketplace where skilled, qualified & talented African freelancers can provide remote services to clients across the world at affordable pricing.  

We aim to connect African freelancers with jobs & clients with professional services, using technology to solve the problem of youth unemployment.

All proceeds go to achieving this vision.

Executive Summary

AfriBlocks is a Global Pan-African freelance network and marketplace where qualified and skilled African professionals can find remote jobs.

AfriBlocks is an on-demand, two-sided marketplace with professional freelancers providing services to clients across the world transforming the way African professionals work.

Freelance work has grown immensely over the past decade and is expected to further increase in the coming years. It is predicted that freelancers will account to as much as 80% of the entire workforce worldwide by 2030.

Freelance work has become a viable source of employment for many people across the world, particularly in Africa. It has shifted from being a vocation people engage in to supplement their income to being a full-time source of jobs. Many industries such as IT, journalism, design and programming are making use of freelance workers to get their work done.

In a world that has become interconnected, African professionals provide highly valuable skill sets across a variety of industries. There is a growing demand for the services of African talent, and more people are taking up freelancing to export their professional skills, which is vital for the individuals themselves & Africa as a whole.

The global market for freelance work as estimated from the McKinsey Global Institute, finds that by 2025 these online marketplaces could add $2.7 trillion to global GDP, and begin to ameliorate many of the persistent problems in the world’s labor markets.

Using technology AfriBlocks is in unique position than ever before, an opportunity to succeed in creating the AfriBlocks Network that will support Africa’s untapped potential solving the problem of youth unemployment  as well as giving the world access to a talented workforce.

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