Corp members, younger entrepreneurs to get grants, mentorship
The Stability and Sustenance Business and Entrepreneurship Platform, has partnered with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to train and empower corps members and young entrepreneurs on wealth creation. The founder of the platform, Melody Fidel, in a press briefing yesterday said in a bid to eradicate unemployment and help in easing the hardship from […]
FILE PHOTO: A cross section of corps members
The Stability and Sustenance Business and Entrepreneurship Platform, has partnered with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to train and empower corps members and young entrepreneurs on wealth creation.
The founder of the platform, Melody Fidel, in a press briefing yesterday said in a bid to eradicate unemployment and help in easing the hardship from the economic downturn in the country, the platform was established to mentor and guide entrepreneurs and providing them grants to start up their business ideas.
Fidel stated that the platform is a home to every entrepreneur who seems lost in their businesses and those who want to venture into business.
“We want to invest back in our society to help in making sure we have a better environment for entrepreneurs to strive in whatever they are doing. We have over 100 persons that we have given grants but we have some outstanding ones that have followed the principles and strategies we have given to them in the space of fashion design, food production and other small businesses.
“We have quite a number of them, as a community, we have over 10,000 persons across board.
“We should not just sit and wait for the government to get these things done for us. If the door of opportunity is not there, we should create one and that is what we are trying to do. If there is no job, we create one, and the best way to do that is to empower entrepreneurs. Once you empower them, in the future they become employers of labour.”
He added that the partnership with the NYSC is in 10 states where corps members would be put through on ways to turn their business ideas into reality with mentorship that will continue after they complete their NYSC programme.
“We have the mentee retreat where we bring the persons we have mentored under one umbrella for a period of days to bond with ourselves,” he added.