25/05/2017
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Founder of the African Youth Entreprenuers Network, Mr. Terry Bogopane has been chosen to participate in the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative. The program which is expected to run for six weeks will start on the 15th of June and run until the 3rd of August 2017, will be hosted by the University of Nevada in Reno.
The 2017 MWF for Young African Leaders Initiative is a flagship program of the US Government that began in 2014 to empower young African leaders through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking and has a network of nearly 3000 fellows from 49 Sub-Saharan African countries. It will be hosted in the United States of America where Bogopane will hone his leadership skills and network with other 999 young leaders also selected amongst 63 000 applicants of the sub-Saharan Africa to participate in this prestigious program.
Bogopane has taken an active role in contributing to the desired goal of a better South Africa as a diligent participant in civil society and through entrepreneurship. He founded the African Youth Entrepreneurs Network (AYEN), a platform that serves as the bridge builder, a link between young entrepreneurs in the rural areas and networking opportunities, information, and access to mentorship and more.
“AYEN was founded on the heels of the discovery that most entrepreneurs in the grassroots do not get the same exposure to opportunities and information compared to their counterparts who are urban dwellers, we provide the succour for this by bringing these opportunities to their doorstep.” Said Bogopane
With AYEN, young entrepreneurs can share ideas and network with each other; they also get to access on the first-hand basis, how to run a successful business enterprise, the best practices they can use on their way to the top.
He stated further that “Our vision is to help 100,000 young entrepreneurs at the end of the second decade of the 21st century across the African continent to stand shoulder – to – shoulder with their counterparts from the developed part of the world. This we hope to achieve by providing mentorship, bringing successful models from the business community on shows, partnering with companies to provide and engage them in innovative and active projects,”
