The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders. Former President Obama launched YALI in 2010 to support young African leaders as they spur growth and prosperity, strengthen democratic governance, and enhance peace and security across Sub-Saharan Africa.In line with our vision to create 10,000 …
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Meet the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs Selected for Mandela Washington Fellowship (YALI) 2017
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Godwith, U.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s Startup Entreprise Toolkit and Seed Capital helped my dreams come to reality. I was a small poultry Farmer with a big dream of changing the Regions Poultry Value chain. Luckily i was selected on the The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme and i have grown in business, now i call develop any …
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Lukas, N.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation did not only help to fund my business idea, their training has also helped to implement my idea more successfully. Their training and workshop fueled my ambition and equipped me enough to get my project going. Specifically, the foundation strengthen my project management skills including financial management skills that is imperative …
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Ghislain, V.
Tony Elumelu Foundation trained me on entrepreneurship skills and gave me the practical skills to build a business from an idea. The USD 5000 seed capital enabled me to execute my idea from scratch to a successful business that currently employs 7 permanent employees with the ability to contract additional of 6 employees when the …
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Kossiwa, A.
This programme brought my business to life! All I had was an idea plus few items, but the programme gave resources, knowledge and confidence to seriously take on the business. It is also help me build my business network and motivate me to dream big for my business. Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Edouodji, S.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s the seed capital has allowed me to start my business by buying some materials and the cash flow has let me to produce some samples of our products . I got some partnership thanks to this program and the startup Entreprise Toolkit helped me to be more credible. Submit Cancel Thanks …
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Lawrence, H.
With the Seed capital from Tony Elumelu we have managed to finance our operational activities including overheads and allowances for staff. This has helped us to fully launch our operations and keep going when sales were still low. We also secured an operations vehicle for our installations team to enable them to be more effective …
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Mavis, N.
Through the foundation we have been able to build a powerful brand. The seed capital helped us get off the ground, we were able to buy our starting stock and be able to pay the first salaries. The toolkit helped us define who we are and who our customers are and work on our product. …
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Emmanuel, N.
Before trainings and seed capital from TEF; we had smallest production capacity (9kg per day). We had few markets ( two stable markets). We were not known; we were only known in one sector (Busogo sector of Musanze district, north of Rwandan). Equipment value was about 50 USD and was inefficient. The building capacity and …
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[Speech] Entrepreneurship: An Antidote to Nigerian Youth Unemployment – Tony O. Elumelu, CON.
Public Lecture Entrepreneurship: an antidote to Nigerian youth unemployment delivered by Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto The First National Dialogue Series (NDS) 29th July 2017 Sokoto PROTOCOL Your Excellency, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto state; The Vice Chancellor, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Professor Abdullahi Zuru; …
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