Executive Director, MTN Foundation (MTNF), Odunayo Sanya, has revealed that 1,000 female entrepreneurs will directly benefit from investments totaling N600 million during the official launch of Phase 2 of the Y’ellopreneur initiative at the telecom company’s head office in Lagos. This initiative comes in commemoration of International Women’s Day (IWD) 2024.
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She said the application for the programme which officially opened last Tuesday is designed to target female entrepreneurs in medium enterprise groups who have a minimum of SSCE educational background; display passion and commitment to self-employment and run an existing business of two years and above in particularly circular economy type of business – manufacturing, processing, agriculture, ICT/digital services, waste management , energy generation, etc with focus on businesses that source most of their raw material locally.