Call For Applications: Tony Elumelu Mentors For TEEP 2018

Mentorship in The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is an out-of-the-classroom experience for close guidance to encourage the personal learning and development of entrepreneurial skills in the selected applicants within a closed mentorship and learning platform.

As a mentor, you will work with up to three assigned mentees in a task-based learning forum for 12 weeks where you will encourage each mentee to go out and implement each learning module.The platform also features forums for both peer-to-peer and inter-group discussions and an easy integration of social media profiles (e.g. on LinkedIn) to facilitate sharing and networking.

Focus

  • A mentor can be matched with up to four mentees.
  • Mentors commit to a minimum of 4 hours per month per mentee for the first three months from April to June and 2 hours per month for the next six months from July to December.
  • Mentoring sessions will be delivered virtually through the Programme portal at times agreed upon by both mentor and entrepreneur.

Offer:

Benefits of being a mentor

Eligibility:

 Selection Criteria

Applications:

  • Mentors complete an online registration form about their previous business experiences, interests and motivations. This information is used to match mentors with selected entrepreneurs, based on their needs and mentoring objectives.
For more information about becoming a mentor, please contact us via email programme@tonyelumelufoundation.org
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APPLY TO BE QUEEN’S YOUNG LEADERS MENTOR IN 2018

 

Personal mentors commit to a one-to-one mentoring relationship with a Queen’s Young Leader award winner – sharing advice, experience and networks.

 
Advisory mentors help Queen’s Young Leaders tackle specific issues, as and when their skills and expertise are required.

Our mentors have described mentoring Queen’s Young Leaders as “inspiring”, “an honour” a “great privilege and learning experience” and “an experience filled with hope, aspiration, and love .

Application:

Click here to Apply

 

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Apply for the Global Fellowship Program for Social Entrepreneurs 2018

Deadline: March 5th,2018

These are the main questions that you will need to complete in your online submission:

Tell us about your social business

  • Social Business Name
  • Website
  • Facebook Page
  • Describe your social business in one or two sentences.
  • Are you legally incorporated? Please specify the country and the legal form. (100 characters)
  • When was your social business started?
  • What social problem do you want to solve? (300 characters)
  • How does your social business solve that problem? (500 characters)

Tell us about your customers & revenue model

  • Who are your beneficiaries/users? (300 characters)
  • Who are your paying customers? Are they different from your beneficiaries? (300 characters)
  • How do you plan to acquire more customers? How do you plan to grow and scale? (300 characters)
  • How many customers have paid for your product/service in the past 12 months (since you have started working if less than 12 months)? (100 characters)
  • Who are your competitors and how are you different from what they offer? (500 characters)
  • What kind of evidence do you have that your solution works/will work? (300 characters)
  • What is the most important measure/indicator of your success? (100 characters)
  • What are your main expenses? (300 characters)
  • What is your revenue model? How does your social business makes money?

Tell us about your team

  • Who are the founders?
  • Who are the other team members?
  • What roles/people/knowledge is your team missing?

 

Click Here To Apply

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Path To Self Recovery (2)

4.Identify Your Unique Purpose

Now that your mind is free of guilt and burden caused by pains and unforgiveness, you are on the full-scale journey to recovery.How do you identify your unique set? You can do the following

Create A Purpose Board

Go visual with this and let your mind go wild but don’t set too much agenda. Look for pictures, drawings or images that inspire you, that make you go crazy- wedding pictures, babies, nature, magical fantastic creatures or machine? Cut, paste and Clip to your board- watch and see the unique story begin. If the picture of young girls hawking makes you feel bad, you are likely going to advocate for the girls’ education.

You can learn a lot about your soul’s desires by gazing at your purpose board. You can also visit http://bettyvision.com/home to accomplish this process

Put Your Hobby To Use

You know how to cook, sing or dance? Record a minute video and post on your timeline.The likes and comments will go along way with your discovery

Take Note Of  Your Social Media Intrigues

Whatever fascinates you on social media forms basis of your temperament and defines your personality.

Read Good Books

Find books related to your chosen interest to enhance your frontier of knowledge.

Find A Friend

Ask someone you trust to support you in your journey of self-discovery, tell them how they can help and also listen to their suggestions in helping you create the life of your dream

Dare The Devil

Dream, take a step and never worry about mistakes. You will learn and unlearn as you journey on the path of discovery. Every move and mistake will provide opportunity through the learning curve.

Trust God All The Way

You can’t achieve nothing without God and He is definitely interested in you and your dreams to make it big. It costs Him nothing to make you the wonder of the world.Just trust Him at every level of the journey.

Celebrate

At the achievement of any milestone, celebrate you.

On a final note, get the full lyrics of I believe I can fly by R. Kelly and sing to the last note with rapt attention. Then, start your comment on this post with #IbelieveIcan . You can also read the Path to Self Recovery (1)

 

 

 

 

Photocredit: Crystalinnercircle

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Jemima and I : A Story of Transformation

“I have it in me, I will never allow anyone tarnish my point of view”

I graduated with the hope and aspiration of rising to fame but to my dismay challenges almost crumbled my great dream. All the challenges are gone now, but I asked a sincere question: What went wrong? I discovered that my environment and I contributed to a whole lot of things but I accepted my part of the blame.

Meanwhile, I had a clearer picture of me and the past when I met a 14-year-old girl, Jemima Adedoja (not her real name) at the Activate Youth Camp, the largest camp meeting for teens in Africa. Her story reminded me of the beginning of my predicament as a child.

Jemima, a high school student, was my mentee and a member of my team – Amber. She was a very brilliant and good looking girl with a promising future but lacked the courage to relate and express her mind. In short, she had low self-esteem.I took time out to concentrate on Jemima after series of complaint from her parents and other mentors in the camp.
In my interaction with Jemima, she said “I always keep quiet so that I will not make a mistake. My parents and teachers in school believe I cannot do anything. Most times, people ignore my suggestions and I feel I am worthless”. Of course, you are very brilliant and as a matter of fact, I have never seen a young girl speaking with such dexterity like you, I responded.

Afterwards, in all our team meetings, I ensured Jemima contributed to the team discussions. Guess what? The team started adopting her suggestions without hesitation.

At a time, Jemima volunteered to be a lead vocal at one of the camp’s singing competitions. Also, she expressed her interest to write about her experience in the camp, immediately, I encouraged her to go ahead. Amazingly, Jemima wrote an article which the editor considered the most suitable article for the moment. “You don’t mean it”!!!- Jemima exclaimed when I informed her that the article had gone live.

I have it in me, I will never allow anyone tarnish my point of view, Jemima expressed with a dauntless smile. I will pursue my passion of becoming a renowned blogger while I study hard to earn a degree in Arts.

 

I was moved to tears because I never thought 7 days could be enough to change a young girl’s perception of life.

This story was first published on AnniesPlace.org

 

Photocredit : Chronicle

 

Photocredit : Chronicle
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