Capital, so a trade can start.
Micro-finance grants and loans for small and medium enterprises, skills acquisition schemes, and support for the pioneer graduates of each scheme.
What the programme does
The Youth Empowerment programme provides micro-finance grants and loans for the establishment of small and medium enterprises, so that young people leaving education or training have the capital to begin a trade.
Skills acquisition schemes run alongside the finance, and the Foundation continues to support the pioneer graduates of each intake. A motorcycle transit venture was among the first businesses established under the programme.
The Foundation is committed to human capacity development and to the establishment of cooperative societies, both of which run through this programme and the Widows Cooperative.
The record
Reported activity under this programme.
News from this programme
EmpowermentNIGERIAN PARALYMPIAN WINS GOLD AT IWAS, THANKS SIR EMEKA OFFOR
At the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports World Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville, UK, a 23-year-old Paralympian and Powerlifter from Ahmadu Bello University, Emmanuel Godwin, won a Gold medal to make its sole sponsor, Sir Emeka Offor, The Sir…
EmpowermentSir Emeka Offor Foundation Cheers on Nigerian Team at IWAS Junior Games
It's Day 1 at the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports (IWAS) Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville, UK, and like a typical English day, it drizzled and drizzled.
EmpowermentVideo: Disability is in the heart; Differently Able
#ImAble - The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports (IWAS) Junior Games will once again take place this year from 1st to 8th August 2014.
EmpowermentSir Emeka Offor to send Nigerian Paralympians to IWAS Games
Barely weeks away from now, Sir Emeka Offor, Rotary International Polio Ambassador to Nigeria, a businessman turned Philanthropist takes a team of Nigerian Paralympians to Stoke Mandeville Stadium, in Buckinghamshire, England, the venue for the…
EmpowermentSEOF sponsors the Nigerian Paralympic Committee to the 2014 World Junior Games
The International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports (IWAS) Federation will be staging the 10th Under-23 World Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville Sport Stadium in the United Kingdom from the 3rd through the 8th of August 2014.
EmpowermentSEOF Empowers Pioneer Graduates Of Its Skills Acquisition Scheme
On the 30th of August, 2013, the SEOF sent forth the pioneer batch of its Skills acquisition programme, marking their graduation from their various trainings. The event took place at the Foundation's Headquarters, in Irefi Oraifite Anambra State.
African Leadership Magazine Interviews Sir Emeka Offor
African Leadership Magazine put a wide range of questions to Sir Emeka Offor for its May 2013 cover profile, “Determination is everything”, written by Sam Hart. His answers on the Foundation’s work are reproduced here.
Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) Empowers The Youth
As part of its commitment to youth empowerment, Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) in collaboration with Oraifite Improvement Union (O.I.U) has embarked on a skills acquisition programme for young people in Oraifite and its environs.
Other programmes
Health Services
Rural medical consultations, hospital equipment, polio eradication with Rotary International, and glaucoma research.
Education
University scholarships, book distribution with Books For Africa, and model schools and classrooms.
Widows Cooperative
Cooperative societies, skills acquisition, housing and direct relief for widows in Anambra State.