United States President, Barack Obama, has
honoured a Nigerian, Adepeju Jaiyeoba, and four
other young entrepreneurs from around the
world at a Global Entrepreneurship event in
Washington DC.
The White House, in a statement on its official
website, noted that the emerging entrepreneurs
from across the US and around the world were
brought together to create innovative solutions
to some of the world’s toughest challenges,
including poverty, climate change, extremism,
access to education and health care.
The statement read, “The event comes ahead of
Obama’s travel to this summer’s Global
Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and
provides a unique opportunity to galvanise global
attention on emerging women and young
entrepreneurs.
“Jaiyeoba, who is a Nelson Mandela Washington
Fellow for Young African Leaders, founded
Mothers Delivery Kits in 2013 after losing a close
friend to childbirth to address maternal and child
mortality resulting from unhygienic and unsafe
deliveries in Nigeria.
“She has been able to collaborate with other
entrepreneurs, build employee capacity through
YALI courses, and receive seed capital and
mentorship from the US African Development
Foundation.”
According to the White House, Jaiyeoba has
expanded her services to internally displaced
victims of Boko Haram.
The grant has also reportedly enabled her
company to acquire new machinery, establish a
storage facility in northern Nigeria to address
transportation challenges, increase its Lagos-
based staff, and reach nearly 80 community
midwives and health care providers across 23
states in the country.
“The event will recognize the impact made by a
number of U.S. government-led initiatives.
“The United States has played a key role in
organizing all five previous Global
Entrepreneurship Summits, including the
inaugural summit in 2010, designed to
encourage innovators to choose
entrepreneurship as a profession and to
empower aspiring entrepreneurs, giving them
access to mentors, networks, and capital,” the
White House further said.
Among the five entrepreneurs who spoke at the
event was Tony Elumelu, Founder of the Tony
Elumelu Foundation and former Managing
Director/Chief Executive Officer of the United
Bank for Africa.


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