Funmi, a 54-year-old widow with four children living in the low-income area of western Nigeria lives on a daily wage. The two-week lockdown has forced her and her family into a state of fear as she looks for their next daily bread. She ponders leaving the house to sell her wares...
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Category: Projects
On the 23rd of July 2019, Growing Businesses Foundation in Partnered with Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation to empower 65 women in Lagos State. The 65 women were chosen from the 105 women that attended the Entrepreneurial woman event which took place on the 4th of June, 2019 based on their age,...
On the 4th of June, 2019 GBF partnered with Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation on a Business Development and Mentoring Program tagged “The Entrepreneurial Woman”. In attendance was a total of 105 business women from different parts of Lagos State. The aim of this project is to improve the lives of...
Citi Bank Nigeria in collaboration with Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF) is organizing a 3-day entrepreneurship and leadership seminar tagged “Accelerating Pathways”. The purpose of the seminar is to help teenagers and youths harness their entrepreneurial and leadership skills. The training will hold on three Saturdays 25th November, 2nd and 9th...
Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF) in the month of September, 2017 convened a Business development Incubation Program in the city of Abuja, FCT – Nigeria funded by Citi as part of the Citi’s focus on Investments in Direct Service in “Accelerating Pathways” global initiative in NIgeria. The series of programs are...
Many of the most successful people in business today started out as teenage entrepreneurs. For many teenagers and youths, coming up with the right ways to build a business isn’t always easy. Entrepreneurship education benefits youths and teenagers from all socioeconomic backgrounds because it teaches them to think outside the...
Over the past couple of months, Unilever Nigeria has leveraged the Shakti project to lift thousands of rural women out of poverty and get them to participate in the economic activities by providing income generating opportunities and also use their network to create hygiene awareness in the community. So far,...
Growing Businesses Foundation conducted two (2) training sessions for young entrepreneurs for the classroom training component; as a part of the YES Programme initiated and funded by the Bank of Industry (BoI) in Bauchi State. Complementing components of this graduate entrepreneurship training included group and individual role plays, video shows...
Following the September, 2016 training sessions facilitated for young and aspiring entrepreneurs in Bauchi State (North Eastern Nigeria) by Growing Businesses Foundation for the classroom training component of the YES Programme initiated and funded by the Bank of Industry (BoI). GBF will from the second week of November, 2016 conduct...
Growing Businesses Foundation (GBF) is set facilitate 3 streams of 5-day classroom training for the Bank of Industry (BoI) YES-P participants in the North Eastern State of Bauchi. An Eight (8) week long extensive online Entrepreneurship and Business Management training is presently in its final stages. The on-line component is...