Digital and business skills training and services for women in business
Celebrating International Women’s Day With a 3 Day City-Wide Fringe Festival Friday, 15th March – Sunday, 17th March, 2019 9:00am – 5:00pm Daily To Inform, Inspire And Connect Women For Personal Action And Advancement In Life, Workplace And Communities. Establish Simplified And Easily Accessible Processes For Undeserved Women. Develop Sustainable Community-Based Approaches To Enhance Women’s […]
The goal of the YAIF Fund is to provide essential seed capital and technical assistance to young African leaders under the age of 40. This support will enable investments in promising enterprises, thereby fostering opportunity and development in Africa. Objectives include: (1) selecting and funding young African leaders to launch or expand their revenue-generating ventures; […]
The Anzisha Prize is Africa’s biggest award for her youngest entrepreneurs, and hands out over USD $100,000 every year in funding to entrepreneurs from all over the continent. Criteria You must be between 15 and 22 years old with an ID document or Passport to present as evidence. Anyone born before November 1, 1996 or […]
Road to Growth was successfully piloted with 500 women business owners in Nigeria in 2015-16 and was subsequently launched in Mexico in 2018. Read more about the impact of the Nigeria pilot. Following on from these initiatives, we are continuing our collaborative venture with ExxonMobil Foundation in 2019 in Nigeria. Road to Growth will continue […]
In the spirit of tooting your horn, today we Admire @olubunmisays the Initiator and Director of She Learns Here Ltd. Olubunmi is a professional trainer, conference speaker and instructor, the Initiator of She Learns Here, a platform where she is a part of the faculty that trains and supports women with knowledge to improve their […]
This week, our spotlight is in Seyifunmi Fadeyi, the Director of Zircon Initiatives. An event management and decoration outfit based in General gas, Ibadan. She a very creative lady who loves meeting people and travelling. Seyifunmi love to add value to people so she trains and gives her all into making her trainees the best […]
INGRESSIVE IS COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AFRICAN INNOVATORS. They invest $50k to $100k checks into Pre-Seed to Seed, tech-enabled companies based in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ingressive provides follow-on funding with our own investor base, who run some of the leading funds in the world. Ingressive looks for post-launch founders with a great product, […]
Femi Olayebi is the CEO and Chief Creative Director of My World of Bags, a Handbag Design and Manufacturing company based in Ibadan, Nigeria. Under My World of Bags, she runs FEMIHANDBAGS, an ‘affordable luxury’ line of bespoke, beautifully handcrafted leather handbags. 2008 – Femi was one of the first 25 recipients to be awarded […]
11th of February every year is set aside as the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM. This year, we collaborated with MAYEIN, (an NGO which provides support, skills, policy advocacy, mentoring and more to youths) to host a workshop on Digital skills for Girls from 10 invited schools in Ibadan. The event started […]
Our second entrepreneurial feature this year on She Learns Here is Yetunde Adegboye, the Founder of Ybom ventures, the parent company of Kidpolis by Ybom, a computer science graduate who also holds a masters degree in Managerial Psychology. Before now, Yetunde had worked in several industries including Oil and Gas, Maritime, Banking and Aviation industries. […]