{"id":26064,"date":"2024-07-22T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/?p=26064"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:54:49","slug":"seed-grant-in-2015-ogola-tef-alumni-from-nigeria-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/ar\/news\/seed-grant-in-2015-ogola-tef-alumni-from-nigeria-success-story","title":{"rendered":"\u0645\u0646\u062d\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0630\u0648\u0631 \u0641\u064a 2015: \u0623\u0648\u063a\u0648\u0644\u0627\u060c \u0642\u0635\u0629 \u0646\u062c\u0627\u062d \u062e\u0631\u064a\u062c \u0645\u0624\u0633\u0633\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0645 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062f\u0631\u064a\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0647\u0646\u064a \u0645\u0646 \u0646\u064a\u062c\u064a\u0631\u064a\u0627"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) of Nigeria, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/nigeria-records-40-post-harvest-losses-annually-in-tomato-production\/#:~:text=Nigeria%20records%2040%25%20post%2Dharvest%20losses%20annually%20in%20tomato%20production,-There%20is%20glut&amp;text=Nigeria%20records%20about%2040%25%20post,Council%20(RMRDC)%20has%20said.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nigeria records\u202f<strong>40%<\/strong>\u202fpost-harvest losses annually in tomato production.<\/a> While the annual production of tomato in the country is rising and currently slightly over 1.8 million metric tonnes, national demand has increased to more than 2.4million metric tonnes per annum, leaving a huge deficit\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending a lot of time on the streets searching for a job, Ogola Kange decided to become an entrepreneur, she began to make and deliver healthy food to customers within her location. See some months of business success, she went to register his business Smiley&#8217;z Mobile Kitchen in 2014.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Seed Grant in 2015 from the TEF Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogola\u2019s company attempts to reduce post-harvest losses in various agricultural produce, especially tomatoes. She helps farmers with processing tomatoes organically, giving it a longer shelf life, while achieving some of the sustainable development goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cThe TEF program and the seed grant in 2015 was the real basis of my Entrepreneurship resilience and success today. That first application, the 12 weeks learning, and the boot camp are the things that I have built upon over the years, modifying and improving the business plan till what it is today.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smiley\u2019z impact focus has two-dimension, poverty reduction and environmental conservation.&nbsp; The average woman living in rural Nigeria earns $0.3 a day, with limited skills or opportunities to increase their livelihood. Smiley\u2019z addresses this in two ways: First by working with 35 smallholder farmers to purchase their excess tomatoes. Providing market access to these women, Smiley\u2019z increases their sales by 25% on average per annum. Secondly, she trains women on how to develop cottage industry agricultural products.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has provided entrepreneurship training to over 200 women. Fifty of them are now successfully starting their own businesses to support themselves and their employees. Smiley\u2019z Tomato products are part of Solar Impulse Foundations\u2019 1,000 Solutions and efficient ways of production. The small farmers it works with are trained in ecological farming best practices, including how to reduce CO2 emissions, energy and water usage, and reduce tomato production waste. While in its own production process it uses glass jars to enable recycling of its products, renewable energy and post-harvest waste reduction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since TEF, Smiley\u2019z has gotten many more certifications, trainings, awards, grants and VC investment. 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