Linda Ikeji Empowers Aspiring Female Entrepreneurs with ‘I’d Rather be Self Made’ N10 Million Grant Project(Classic Story)

The following story is a golden oldie.Earlier this year noted blogger, Linda Ikeji,  launched an initiative called ‘I’d Rather be Self Made” to empower aspiring female entrepreneurs.

As part of the program, she  gave N10 million to the selected women to assist them in starting their respective businesses. She selected 15 beneficiaries.

Here is what Ikeji said about the program

I am so excited and I can’t wait to help more young ladies start their own businesses. So earlier this year, I announced that I was going to set aside a N10million grant to help young ladies with dreams, ambition and great business ideas to start their own small scale businesses. And finally, I’ve done it. I’ve spent over N5million on 15 girls…and I have another N5million to give away before the end of the year. You have a great business idea and need start up capital? I’m here to help! .:-)

So here’s how it happened. I met with over 800 ladies in January this year, I got a panel to look at their proposals, we asked about 50 of them to present their ideas to us and then we shortlisted to 15 girls who are the first beneficiaries of the ‘Linda Ikeji I’d Rather Be Selfmade’ project. Here are 11 out of the 15 beneficiaries. Four girls who live outside Lagos (Jos, Umuahia, Ibadan and Warri) couldn’t make it to our meeting this past Sunday August 23rd.

  Linda Ikeji with 11 out of 15 beneficiaries

Linda Ikeji with some of the aspiring beneficiaries in January 2015

courtesy: BELLA-NAIJA