Featured chapter initiativeScheduled
GROW Choma Initiative 2027
Seven weeks of purposeful action to connect communities with knowledge, opportunity, dignity and development.
4 January 2027 – 21 February 2027
The Forge Choma District Chapter
The Forge Ecosystem
Building the next generation of founders, innovators and leaders.
A structured pathway that takes participants from inspiration and learning to innovation, execution and long-term leadership development.
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Forge Conferences
Where visionaries meet, ideas converge and futures are built.
Our premier platform for thought leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation and cross-sector collaboration. We convene students, founders, executives, policymakers, academics, investors and industry leaders to shape the future of Africa.
Signature Event — The Founders Conference
- Keynote presentations
- Leadership forums
- Entrepreneurship summits
- Innovation showcases
- Founder fireside chats
- Policy dialogues
- Pitch sessions
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Forge Labs
Turning ideas into solutions.
Our innovation, experimentation and venture-building platform — a collaborative environment where students and young innovators develop practical solutions to real-world challenges through creativity, research, technology and interdisciplinary collaboration. Great ideas should not remain ideas; they should become solutions.
- Innovation challenges
- Startup incubation
- Design thinking workshops
- Hackathons
- Research & development
- Prototype development
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Forge Academy
Developing leaders for a changing world.
Structured leadership, entrepreneurship and personal-development curricula that equip students with the mindset, skills and disciplines required to lead organizations, build ventures and create lasting impact.
- Leadership systems
- Strategic communication
- Entrepreneurship fundamentals
- Critical thinking
- Productivity & discipline
- Lifelong learning habits
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Mentorship Network
Proximity to those already doing it.
A curated network connecting students and emerging professionals with accomplished founders, executives, technologists and changemakers through structured mentorship and founder office hours.
- 1:1 mentorship
- Cohort circles
- Career guidance
- Founder office hours
- Industry shadowing
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Chapters
Local chapters, continental impact.
Empowering student leaders to drive impact within schools, universities and communities through Forge chapters, ambassador programs and community-led projects.
Featured Project — Speak & Soar
- Chapters
- Ambassador program
- Community projects
- Leadership labs
- Civic engagement
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The Forge Student Lifeline
Because potential deserves a future.
Our student support programme, keeping Zambian students in education when financial hardship threatens to stop them. Requests are coordinated through THE FORGE chapters, verified, assessed and supported transparently — and beneficiaries are invited back into the give-back circle.
Flagship Programme — Student Lifeline
- Education continuity
- Student stability
- Chapter-led requests
- Verification & assessment
- Transparent reporting
- Give-back circle