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Apply For 5 Million Grant To Finance Your Small Business (MasterCard Foundation)

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4 years ago

16/04/2021

Are you a Nigerian within the age of 18 to 35 ? who wants to access up to 5 million Grant to finance your small business and enhance your entrepreneurial skills? follow the guideline below to apply.

‘Transforming Nigerian Youths’ program brought to you by ‘MasterCard Foundation’ in partnership with Enterprise Development Centre.

About Transforming Nigerian Youths

The Transforming Nigerian Youths program aims to create a network of entrepreneurial and managerial change-makers specifically youths and women across the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector in Nigeria but with special interest with those who live in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna states.

This program is brought to Nigeria by the Young Africa Works-Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre, Pan-Atlantic University.

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EDC is teaming up with the Foundation to build the capacity of 40,000 MSMEs with special focus on agriculture and creative sectors especially women-led businesses in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna states. The training will be delivered via EDC’s online learning platform and IVR( Interactive Voice Response) to enable all learners to take part in the lessons on the go wherever they are.

The following are the core objectives of the program:

To completely transform the mindset of youths in Nigeria to become more entrepreneurial, and to equip them to be self-employed or job creators.
To create market access and provide support services to existing business owners especially those being run by young people.
Change the way learning or information is received in Nigeria through EDC Beam.