{"id":2419,"date":"2018-03-29T11:31:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/iigl-wp\/?page_id=2419"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:22:46","slug":"afere-lawrence-graduate-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/afere-lawrence-graduate-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Afere Lawrence &#8211; Graduate Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInDown&#8221;]<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afere Lawrence<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2398\" src=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigeria-Afere-Lawrence2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigeria-Afere-Lawrence2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigeria-Afere-Lawrence2-360x270.jpg 360w, http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigeria-Afere-Lawrence2.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Nigeria<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For me, IIGL is a world of possibilities. It transformed my mindset about what life and living is all about. After becoming a student of this great citadel of learning in 2005, I said to myself, \u201cI will use what I learn here, and the opportunities it presents me, to transform my community in the South West Nigeria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am a farmer. In the last five years, I have worked in the Youth and Enterprise Development Sector with focus on jobs and wealth creation for the unemployed and marginalized youth in Ondo State, South West Nigeria. Currently, I am the director and founder of Springboard Entrepreneurship Development Initiative, Akure, where I develop entrepreneurship, jobs &amp; wealth creation and agricultural programs for unemployed youth. And where I also coordinate the production and marketing of plantain chips and other farm value addition products produced from the Springboard Farms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2009, based on my innovative approach towards solving youth unemployment (using community-based organic farming and agribusiness) in Ondo State, I was nominated for a national youth award by the Federal Ministry of Youth Development in conjunction with Youngstars Foundation, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I hold a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Business Administration from Covenant University, Nigeria and am a trained Social Entrepreneur at the International Institute for Global Leadership, Ashville, USA, Kanthari International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, India and Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2014, I was selected as one of the 500 Washington Fellows for Young African Leaders, a President Obama initiative to train young Africans in Business, Public and Civic sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IIGL has imparted me with optimism and hope. I see a Nigeria, which the entire world is proud of, that is famous for heart-centered and prosperous young Farmers, Entrepreneurs and Leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/afere-a-lawrence-profile\/\">Read My Student Profile Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/afere-a-lawrence-assessments\/\">Read My Book Assessments Here<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInDown&#8221;]Afere Lawrence Nigeria For me, IIGL is a world of possibilities. It transformed my mindset about what life and living is all about. After becoming a student of this great citadel of learning in 2005, I said to myself, <a href=\"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/afere-lawrence-graduate-profile\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/global-leadership.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}