Last Saturday 29th September 2018, American business expert – Cheryl Edison held a business training and mentorship session in Lugogo where she enlighten Ugandan aspiring entrepreneurs on doing successful business.
Since start of last week, Ms Edison was presenting workshops/seminars for entrepreneurs on how to take the very first steps to build a business and provided thinking tools to startup leaders that may have lost their way to financial success.
The increasing level of youth unemployment persuaded Cheryl to motivate the youth in creating startups under the Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI) initiative which supports youth Entrepreneurs aged 16-30 years with the aim of addressing the rampant youth unemployment and poverty that has taken lead.
In Uganda today, many youth can’t create and start running a business that can sustain them and their families due to limited resources, access to credit, lack of business knowledge, access to strong networks and are often seen as high –risk by the financial institutions from which they try to secure loans, this translates that there’s widescale untapped potential which can thrive if given right support.
Ye community crafted new ways to support young entrepreneurs and help them start and scale their enterprises under the systems change model of Child & Youth Finance International (CYFI). Ye community works directly with young entrepreneurs, governments, investors, mentors, corporations and training institutions to create global movement to support youth enterprises. Currently, the Ye community has upto 16,000 entrepreneurs from 140 countries.
M.s Cheryl Edison is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and global business development expert with a track record of successfully launching companies, products and services into new markets across 47 industries.
Cheryl advises Global 500 on innovation creation, and leads presentations and workshops for a wide range of interest groups including Sales Force, Lufthansa, Make Media, Norway Innovation, C-level execs, and Burning Man in her continued pursuit to contribute to local economies by linking creativity, community and commerce.
In 2012, Edison turned her attention to place making. She conceived and launched The Gate 510 for developer/merchant bankers Scanlon KemperBard, transforming a 24-acre automobile factory on the brink of foreclosure, into the nation’s premier Makerspace by connecting the art, tech and maker communities. At Silicon Valley, Edison worked with industry leaders and start-ups to provide pioneering strategies and practical tactics, producing milestone results for Volvo, Carrefour, Telcel, Revlon, Firefly Mobile, Warner Brothers, the Webby Awards and many more.
