In the world of entrepreneurship, some dream and hope their ideas become reality whilst others seize any available opportunity to make their dreams come true. In the end, what these people want is to have something they can proudly call \u201cMyOwnBusiness\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Laurent Georges<\/em> is one such example. While in his final year of secondary school in Cameroon, Laurent faced serious financial challenges.\u00a0Exploring ways to find solution, his sister told him about a youth entrepreneurship program she had heard of in Cameroon. Seeing himself as a future entrepreneur, Laurent without a doubt took his sister\u2019s advice and joined Nestl\u00e9\u2019s My Own Business<\/em> (MYOWBU) program. \u201cFrom a pushcart operator to owning my own operator site, the MYOWBU program has considerably changed and blessed my life. From 2015, I have been able to completely pay all my school fees till now where I\u2019m in research cycle in university. I have become a real support to my family!\u201d, Laurent said.<\/p>\n Laurent\u2019s business now employs 32 people. Through self-employment, Laurent has now become financially independent. Like Laurent, Ahou a young mother in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire earns a living through this program selling around 200 cups of coffee a day. As a street vendor, \u201cThis is how I earn money which allows me to be independent and take care of my child\u201d. From Ghana, Edward Yaw Kumah started as a Salesperson in 2007. Today, he owns an operating site, providing job opportunities for youth in his business. Edward sees a bright future with this business and hopes to expand across the country and provide more job opportunities for others.<\/p>\n The growth of Africa\u2019s economy can be accelerated if we integrate youth development as a core aspect in business operations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n MYOWBU presents an opportunity for young adults such as Laurent, Ahou, and Edward to venture into entrepreneurship to become financially independent. It is also a call for businesses to engage youth and help build their entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n Rabie Issa, Business Executive Officer, Nestl\u00e9 Professional and Nestl\u00e9 Waters strongly believes that \u201cThe growth of Africa\u2019s economy can be accelerated if we integrate youth development as a core aspect in business operations. Nestl\u00e9 will continue to find the right partnerships to create enabling entrepreneurial environment and help young people thrive in Central and West Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As part of Nestl\u00e9 Needs YOUth Initiative, MYOWBU is benefitting over 5, 000 young people and seeks to double its youth outreach with entrepreneurship to 10, 000 by 2025.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Currently operational in Cameroon, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal among others, the program provides commercial equipment including pushcarts and shoulder kits as enablers for interested youth with the dream of starting and owing their own businesses. Nestl\u00e9\u2019s MYOWBU contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the world of entrepreneurship, some dream and hope their ideas become reality whilst others seize any available opportunity to make their dreams come true. In the end, what these people want is to have something they can proudly call \u201cMyOwnBusiness\u201d. Laurent Georges is one such example. While in his final year of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,346,366,343,73,309,18,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-economy","category-international","category-news","category-tourism","category-travels","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}