We are at the fore front in championing entrepreneurship drive for widows and rural women in Nigeria, while creating entrepreneurship opportunities for the next generation of women entrepreneurs in Africa.
Felix king foundation was founded by Dr Felix King Eiremiokhae in 2014, an Honorary Georgia citizen awardee and a recipient of America’s President, Donald Trump’s presidential pin for life time achievement , 2018. an entrepreneur and a philanthropist who is passionate about widows, rural women and the development of the next generation of entrepreneurs in Africa.
Today, The felix king foundation, through the foundation’s startup programs, thousands of widows and rural women in selected communities across Nigeria are fully and freely participating in the economy of their communities. And in 2019, in addition to the rural women programs, the foundation positioned it self as a catalyst for lifting the next generation of women entrepreneurs in Africa . This through a commitment that will connect , inspire and empower these next generation of entrepreneurs in Africa.
INSIGHT: FELIX KING FOUNDATION
In 2014, we founded the Felix King Foundation, a non -for -profit foundation to help vulnerable widows and rural women through different entrepreneurial support programs and ideas that create opportunities for a better community.
Since then, with the support from Oracle Experience Limited, we have inspired and incubated a number of life changing initiatives for these women, their children and the communities they live, like; Widows’ Market Moni, Rural women cooperative development, wifarm program which support women farmers, Educational Aid for widows children, The Felix King Cooperative – a platform that enables rural women cooperatives to pitch for a $5000 (five thousand dollars) cooperative grant. And these have spurred much needed change in the communities.
These programs have over the time bring women together, encourage themselves not to accept the unacceptable, turn challenges into opportunities and to always push boundaries that inspire better life and better communities. At the last quarter of 2019, the above platforms were collapsed into a singular umbrella platform known as RWDP ( Rural women’s development and prosperity initiative ). The RWDP singular focus is #themarketmoni, which will help these women in startups and accelerate women cooperatives.
2019, in addition to the rural women programs, the foundation has positioned itself as a catalyst for lifting the next generation entrepreneurs in Africa. This through a commitment that will connect, inspire and empower these next generation African entrepreneurs.
Welcome to THE STARTUPS
The startups is bourn out of a conviction, that with the right support, the next generation entrepreneurs, can champion the direction of a new world of possibilities.
In Africa through this program, participants will participate in leadership development, mentorship, skills training, and partnership building, with this experience culminating in a business idea pitch competition sessions before judges, where participants will not only learn how to turn their ideas into action, but get a $10k three-fold seed capital. The startups live event will be a business-styled reality program and produced for tv broadcast for wider reach and impact.
