Affempreneurs

Affempreneurs logo featuring a small, green trace image of Africa in a circle with their company name in multiple colours

A social venture that provides young women micro-entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa with business skills, mentorship, financial resources, and wellbeing support, to start and sustain successful enterprises.

Affempreneurs empowers women-led micro-enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Young women micro-entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa face limited access to business skills, mentorship, financial resources, and wellbeing support, hindering their ability to start and sustain successful enterprises.

Affempreneurs provides a structured 7-month programme combining entrepreneurship training, mentorship, peer networking, mental health and wellbeing support, and access to micro-loans or seed grants tailored for underserved women in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The social venture empowers women with critical business skills, mental health support, and financial resources to build resilient, sustainable enterprises, fostering economic independence and community growth.

Affempreneurs works with development organisations, local governments, NGOs, and private sector partners aiming to support women-led micro-enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Related Sustainable Development Goals: 

Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty featuring stick figures of people of all ages and genders holding hands Sustainable Development Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing represented by a heart activity line an image of a Sustainable Development Goal 4 Quality Education represented by an open book and pen Sustainable Development Goal 5 Gender Equality represented by the symbols of male and female atop each other with an equals sign in the centre circle An image representing Sustainable Development Goal 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth featuring an arrowed line ascending upwards An image of an equals sign surrounded by arrows pointing outwards representing Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequality An image of a city skyline representing Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. An image of six overlapping circles forming a flower representing Sustainable Development Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals

 

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Dr Zibah A. Nwako, Senior Research Administrator, Engineering Faculty Office

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