In his inspiring speech, Benjamin underscored the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s pivotal role in revolutionising green entrepreneurship across Africa. He elaborated on how our initiatives are instrumental in addressing some of the continent’s most pressing challenges, including poverty alleviation, job creation, inclusive empowerment, and sustainable development.

Key Highlights from Benjamin’s Address

1. Alleviating Poverty: Benjamin highlighted the Foundation’s commitment to empowering African entrepreneurs through various funding and support programmes. These initiatives are designed to provide the resources and opportunities needed to lift communities out of poverty.

2. Catalysing Job Creation: By supporting innovative green businesses, the Foundation is fostering an environment where new jobs are created, contributing to the economic growth of African nations. This focus on green entrepreneurship ensures that job creation is not only abundant but also sustainable.

3. Ensuring Inclusive Empowerment: The Foundation places a strong emphasis on inclusivity, ensuring that all segments of society, including women and youth, have equal access to entrepreneurial opportunities. This inclusive approach helps to bridge economic and social gaps within communities.

4. Driving Sustainable Development: Our initiatives are aligned with global sustainable development goals, promoting environmentally friendly practices and sustainable business models. By championing green entrepreneurship, we are contributing to a healthier planet and a more resilient economy.

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TEF Mentor Signup: Reasons to Join the TEF Mentor Guild

1. Empower Africa’s Future Leaders

Joining the Global Tony Elumelu Foundation Mentor Guild gives you the opportunity to make a real difference in Africa’s future. Your mentorship will guide and support the next generation of African leaders as they navigate the world of entrepreneurship.

2. Connect with Africa’s Brightest Minds

As a mentor, you’ll be matched with Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs whose goals align with your expertise and interests. This connection allows you to share your knowledge and experience directly with individuals who are driving change and innovation across the continent.

3. Flexible Commitment, Lasting Impact

With just 2 hours of your time each month for a 12-month period, you can contribute to poverty eradication, job creation, and women’s economic inclusion in Africa. Your commitment may be small, but the impact is significant and long-lasting.

4. Grow Personally and Professionally

Joining the Mentor Guild isn’t just about giving back—it’s also about personal and professional growth. Receive certificates of achievement and access valuable opportunities to enhance your skills and expand your network within the global community.

5. Be Part of Africa’s Entrepreneurial Revolution

The TEF Entrepreneurship Programme has already trained over 1.5 million young Africans. Provided millions of dollars in funding to up to 20,000 entrepreneurs. By joining our Mentor Guild, you become an integral part of Africa’s entrepreneurial revolution, driving positive change and economic development across the continent.

Don’t miss this opportunity to make a difference and shape Africa’s future. Click here for the TEF Mentor Signup and be a part of empowering Africa’s next generation of leaders.

About The Tony Elumelu Foundation

The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and ensuring inclusive economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has trained over 1.5 million young Africans on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed nearly USD$100 million in direct funding to 18,000 African women and men, who have collectively created over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.

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The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is a $100million commitment made by the Elumelu family to empower 10,000 African entrepreneurs over a 10-year period through, training, mentorship, and funding. The goal is to create at least 1million jobs and contribute over $10billion in revenue to the African economy. 

Through its flagship Entrepreneurship Programme, the Foundation empowers African entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship ecosystem across 54 African countries. The TEF training curriculum has been designed to segment entrepreneurs based on the demonstrated capability and knowledge. 

The training has been tailored to educate and capacitise you in starting or growing your business to overcome the challenges faced by entrepreneurs across the African continent. The curriculum focuses on practical, iterative learning that is useful even long after the training period. 

NOTE: Completion of the training programme is a strict condition to moving forward to the submission and review of your business plan, participation in the pitching competition, and receipt of seed capital.

Further Opportunities Available to Young African Entrepreneurs on TEFConnect

As a part of the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s commitment to foster innovation and economic growth across the continent, the following further opportunities have been made available to young entrepreneurs across Africa on TEFConnect.com in 2024:

• 2024 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, open from January 1 – March 1
• Women Entrepreneurship For Africa (WE4A), open from January 1 – March 1
• Aguka Entrepreneurship Programme, open from March 25 – May 10

All young African entrepreneurs are encouraged to seize these transformative opportunities to embark on a life-changing experience of training, mentorship, access to networks, and funding.

Apply for TEF2024 – An Easy Guide to Navigate the TEFConnect Website

This is a guide to successfully navigate through the TEFConnect.com website.

• Visit TEFConnect.com on your device using a web browser and ensure your internet connection is on and working (Laptop on Mobile Phone)
• Go to the signup page – https://tefconnect.com/signup

Please fill every field on this page and ensure you use a valid email address that you can access to verify.

• Verify your email.  You’d get this message in your email address you provided. You may check your spam folder if you didn’t get the message in your inbox. Click the link in your email address or copy to a browser

This page would appear after you click on the verification link sent to your email

Then proceed to login with the same email address and the password you provided upon signup

Select a profile type. For the entrepreneurship opportunities, your selection would be “Entrepreneur”

Welcome to the TEFConnect dashboard. Click on “Start Application”

• A terms and conditions page pops up. Ensure to scroll down and accept to proceed.
• Program overview page displays next. You’d need to scroll down and click on CONTINUE.
• The INTRODUCTION page displays next. Kindly take out some time to read this introduction. Click on the CONTINUE button.

THE TEF2024 APPLICATION FORM

The application form consists of 4 sections:

1. Personal information

2. Business Idea & Experience

3. Personality assessment, Cognitive and Business acumen assessment

4. Declarations

To ensure a transparent application process, all applicants must upload a valid government issued ID and indicate their name on the application form and on TEFConnect exactly as it appears on the ID card.

Please fill out your personal information, proceed until the Declaration page.

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In 2017, before the TEF program, Olanrewaju was only selling one product on the street around the city. Presently he has seven products in about nine states in Nigeria and has created direct jobs for 14 Nigerians. He provides farm jobs for women – 8 women working in his factory and several women selling his products in the markets with monthly revenue of about 5000 USD. His company has local and international partnerships, with the products leaving Nigeria’s coast to Europe and America. 

African Success Story in Food Processing Business

Olarewaju said the seed capital and the 12 weeks of entrepreneurship training have been vital for his business. During the 2019 TEF forum, he was able to exhibit at the UBA marketplace and connected with several people that have impacted his business in terms of finances and recommendations.

“We have provided market opportunities for farmers -hundreds of tonnes of farm-produced processed.  We have provided off-farm jobs for women- 8 women working in our factory and several women selling our products in the markets.  We have created opportunity for industrial attachment for students- 12 students directly trained and more than 500 on excursion.”

About The Tony Elumelu Foundation

The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and ensuring inclusive economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has trained over 1.5 million young Africans on its digital hub, TEFconnect, and disbursed nearly USD$100 million in direct funding to 18,000 African women and men, who have collectively created over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.

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