THE Karimjee Jivanjee Group has partnered with Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) chapter in Tanzania to support and provide young entrepreneurs with knowledge for business growth.
The Karimjee Jivanjee Limited Tanzania, Chairman, Yusuf Karimjee said over the weekend, “This generation is full of young, passionate and ambitious entrepreneurs with inspiring business ideas that are driven by a vision to impact Tanzania and the world at large.”
In this partnership, Karimjee Jivanjee Group will be the lead sponsor of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) in 2020. The EO began leading the EO GSEA programme in 2006.
GSEA is a premier global competition for student entrepreneurs under 30, who actively run a business while still attending college or university. EO GSEA supports those student entrepreneurs who require much needed mentorship, recognition and connections to take their business to the next level.
The EO Tanzania Chapter President, Miranda Naiman said, “We are passionately dedicated to nurturing Tanzania’s finest young entrepreneurs for the growth and development of our beloved country.
The GSEA initiative brings together exceptional student preneurs to showcase and celebrate innovation – this is our way of making a mark.” EO GSEA nominees compete in qualifying competitions at the local, regional and global levels in the hope of earning the title of Global GSEA champion.
This year, GSEA received 27 student applications, from eight different universities across Tanzania and have now shortlisted the top 5 finalists. The winner will be announced on the 23rd of January and will attend the Global GSEA finals in Cape Town.
EO is a global, peer-topeer network of more than 14,000 influential business owners with 193 chapters in 60 countries. In this year’s contest, the goal of EO is to give these student entrepreneurs the opportunity to accelerate their success, challenge the status quo, connect to an instrumental peer group and make the greatest impact possible in their local communities.
The EO member Mr Baraka Mtunga said, “We aim to raise not only awareness about student entrepreneurs but provide mentorship and share leadership experiences with the youth at large and we shall continue to engage the GSEA competition as our anchor product to achieve this goal in Tanzania for the foreseeable future.”
The KJ Group and Karimjee Jivanjee Foundation are honoured to be able to support, empower and inspire business and social entrepreneurship in Tanzania among the next wave of change-makers and the growing start-up community among students, colleges, and universities.
