31/12/2019
ENTERPRISE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION
(EEF)
Introduction
Enterprise Empowerment Foundation (EeF) is another new innovation born out of government’s quest to reduce unemployment through job creation. The organization has its focus on changing the mindset of the youth, and more importantly, to see themselves as business owners and entrepreneurs rather than looking up to government for employment opportunities. It also offers employment opportunities and career advisory services.
This we hope to achieve through a wide network with key businesses from the private sector as well as our partnership development with government ministries, departments and agencies as well as overseas partners. Starting 2020 we hope to outline a number of programmes and events such conferences, leadership training, business seminars and workshops as well as outreach programmes including sports, counseling and entertainment as part of effort to deepened relationship and business among young entrepreneurs and civil society.
Who we are
We are a network of young professionals and aspiring corporate leaders. Our values and principles evolve around innovation, leadership, collaboration and sharing of ideas and best practices.
Objective
As part of its sensitization drive, the organization is currently focusing on targeting schools, churches and the general community to get the youth onboard. Its current activity also include leadership and entrepreneurship development programmes through business seminars outreach programmes and linking young entrepreneurs with businesses and financial institutions for business support and capital, business advicery services and in some cases, undertaking real projects.
The organization has the following funding structure.
Target Grouping
The organization has three main target groupings,
Those from the Tertiary institutions particularly final year students of polytechnics and universities, the other group is from the Senior high schools, most of whom will be sensitized on career-based development training and entrepreneurship. The third and final group will be the artisans and skilled entrepreneurs with business startups. With this group, we intend to improve upon their core management skill by offering them training and a world class business support to cope with challenges of today’s business environment.
In doing so, we intend to partner with some of the following banks and institutions. We have, Tallow oil, Newmont Ghana, Fidelity bank, Amalbank, Barclays, Ecobank among others.
We also intend to have specialized skill training for our members and customers of these banks particularly in the area of business management, consultancy and business advisory services.
We will also offer tailor made services to meet the increasing needs of our community in the area of career guidance and entrepreneurship.
As part of our best practices, we will seek to collaborate and share with other in the industry to create a world class entrepreneurship development training centre.
We also hope to have regional branches in all the ten regions as well as international branches.
AIM
Our aim is to empower the youth as well as young business owners through enterprise base activities and consultancy to become masters of the destiny. In other words, the foundation seeks to encourage more and more young people to become innovators and business creators rather than simply job seekers.
As part of our activities, we hope to bring together a whole community of youth professionals alongside student groups and representatives from the various tertiary institutions, trade union representative, educationalists, government representative as well as members from the diaspora community. Core activities shall include deliberating on issues such as creating awareness and interest in free-market entrepreneurship as a career option amongst young people. Organizing programmes and events where participants get to learn about the importance and means of creating capital ownership and wealth within their community.
Finally, the organization seeks to be a dynamic and major player in government quest to create a vibrant private sector with the youth development as it focus.
