Popular Nigerian blogger, has fulfilled her promise to empower some Nigerian women as she doles out million for her charity Project
Linda Ikeji with 11 out of 15 beneficiaries
Popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji, who launched an initiative called 'I’d Rather be Self Made' earlier this year to empower aspiring female entrepreneurs, is already giving N10 million to the selected women to assist them in starting their respective businesses.
Linda Ikeji with some of the aspiring beneficiaries in January 2015
After careful verifications, she has selected 15 beneficiaries. Below is what Linda Ikeji said about the program:
"I am so excited and I can’t wait to help more young ladies start their own businesses. So earlier this year, I announced that I was going to set aside a N10million grant to help young ladies with dreams, ambition and great business ideas to start their own small scale businesses. And finally, I’ve done it. I’ve spent over N5million on 15 girls…and I have another N5million to give away before the end of the year. You have a great business idea and need start up capital? I’m here to help! .:-)
So here’s how it happened. I met with over 800 ladies in January this year, I got a panel to look at their proposals, we asked about 50 of them to present their ideas to us and then we shortlisted to 15 girls who are the first beneficiaries of the ‘Linda Ikeji I’d Rather Be Selfmade’ project. Here are 11 out of the 15 beneficiaries. Four girls who live outside Lagos (Jos, Umuahia, Ibadan and Warri) couldn’t make it to our meeting this past Sunday August 23rd."