The Tony Elumelu Foundation
(TEF) announces the digital release of the documentary film Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs: Transforming Africa.
To watch and
discover how the Foundation developed a programme to institutionalize luck and
gave Africa’s entrepreneurs the tools they need to succeed, please visit
bit.ly/TEEPdocumentary
The film tells the story of the
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), the Foundation’s
decade-long commitment of $100 million to empower 10,000 entrepreneurs from all
of Africa, to create jobs and generate wealth.
TEF
Founder, Tony O. Elumelu, CON, commented: “I am deeply proud of what we
accomplished in TEEP’s first year. We funded entrepreneurs, established
networks and helped extraordinary people take control of their destinies and we
did it on an incredible scale. This film is a depiction of Africans telling our
own stories as we spur innovative and economic development on the continent.”
According to Parminder Vir
OBE,Foundation’s CEO,“Tony
Elumelu Entrepreneurs: Transforming Africa is a documentary that tells the story of one man’s vision to harness the ingenuity and
creativity of Africa’s entrepreneurs and once refined, unleash it as an engine
of growth on the continent.”
This
year, over 45,000 entrepreneurs from 54 African countries applied for the
second round of TEEP, more than doubling the number of applications received in
2015. Subsequent films in the
series will explore the impact of these entrepreneurs in creating jobs and innovation
that is solving key issues.
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