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The purpose of the initiative is to enable young people—usually between 18 and 30 years old—to become young entrepreneurs. They do this by leveraging help from local business people who share their experience as well as contribute seed money to help them realize their dream of self sufficiency. |
The programme was initiated by The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum with the aim of helping disadvantaged young people realize their ambitions to become entrepreneurs.
Our work with the Youth Business Initiative locally has seen us engage YBI as partners while developing models for implementation of their strategies in Nigeria. YBI's goal of being able to fund their projects (always difficult) was recently helped along by our donation of 3 million naira. The donation was received by Emeka Anyaku former Secretary General of the Commonwealth who is the chairman of the initiative in Nigeria.