The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) on Monday said 30 per cent of the entrepreneurs that it empowered had been able to impact on lives directly or indirectly.

Director, TEF, Titi Akande said this at the on going Project Management Institute (PMI) Africa Conference while speaking on the theme ‘The Keys to Leading and Driving Continious Change and Innovation’.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that PMI Africa Conference is an annual event which the 7th annual conference hosted in Lagos with the theme ‘Sustainable Growth for Social Good ‘.

Akande said that TEF had empowered more than 15, 000 people with capacity building and resources needed to take the capacity building further.

She said that it was the general phenomenon to empower people and only few creating the needed impact but that should not end the empowerment rather, they should be mentored and monitored .

According to her, African youths are resilient, adding that what they needed was the capacity building to show what they could do.

‘’One of the factors at TEF is to teach them capacity building and give them resources they need to take it further.

‘’The other aspect is access to network, access to mentorship and share knowledge through training.

‘’We can make a change by giving back to the communities that need it and let us build Africa together,’’ Akande said.

According to her, where there is a shortage, there is a job; when you find the needs of a particular community you create job.

She said that one could create direct jobs or indirect jobs through providing the need of the community.

The Director said that the young people on the continent were always ready, all they needed was the push and encouragement to contribute to Africa’s continent.

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