Many Young people in the third world struggle to access capital because they do not have collateral, they do not have access to seasoned business advice/assistance (to help with things like writing credible business plans and identifying niches) and because they lack the social and political connections to access moneyed folk. Unlike most western economies …
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Instead of Cash grants, shouldn’t you be equipping people?
I recently got asked this in a conversation with a friend who was wondering whether cash grants are the right thing for Oshede to do. So after sending them a link to the research, I informed them that equipping recipients was part of the plan. All the people who get accepted onto our initiative will …
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 …