Alaba Lawrence Afere

Alaba Lawrence Afere has five years of experience working in youth and enterprise development with a focus on jobs and wealth creation for the unemployed and marginalized youth in Ondo State, Nigeria. Alaba Lawrence Afere currently serves as the founder and Director of the Springboard Entrepreneurship Development Initiative, where he develops programs for unemployed youth in entrepreneurship, jobs, wealth creation, and agriculture. He is also responsible for coordinating the production and marketing of plantain chips produced from the Springboard Farms. Lawrence holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Covenant University, Nigeria and received training in social entrepreneurship from the International Institute for Global Leadership and the Kanthari International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs. Upon completion of the Washington Fellowship, Lawrence plans to extend his entrepreneurship and agricultural programs to several unemployed young people across the 18 local government areas in Ondo State, Nigeria.