[Manchester, 26th July 2022.] Oshede is pleased to announce that Mrs Caroline Zamaere-Msoni has joined our leadership team. This marks an important step in the growth of our Social Enterprise, and will bring on board much valuable expertise, local connections and legal knowledge to our team. It also gives us a reference point for current …
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year. As far away as 2020 can possibly be mentally shut away, finally, we’ve made it into a new year – a reason enough for gratitude. But what a year 2020 was! What a mess… I’m sure most of us would very much like to forget about last year, and the C word, …
And the Winners are
Barnett Kanyenda, whose business plan on an Integrated Livestock and Fish Farming business was most impressive to be selected by the judging panel following the dual blind marking system as the most thorough and most deserving of the first prize. And Pempho Mwale, whose business plan for a Special Effects Makeup(SFX) Studio was deemed to …
Pitch
Oshede is an online empowerment & support initiative to help people in developing regions with assistance towards paying for post-secondary education or towards developing a sustainable income via micro-enterprises. We do this by giving them a platform on which to crowdsource solutions for their challenges/ projects, be it via goodwill monetary contributions from members of …
Why Mentorship?
Sometimes funding interventions do not achieve all their outcomes because the funding is not enough. At other times it is because the funding is not utilised properly, or it has strings attached. Further still, at other times (and in the context of investment into a micro-enterprise), the failure can be down to a lack of …
Introducing Oshede
shede is a Yoruba word meaning escape. We only discovered this years after we had already coined the term. Interestingly “o shede” with a space between the o and the s means “he says” in Yoruba. Another accidental discovery… Also, Google Translate seems to think Oshede is a Danish word … although we’re not entirely …