YALE Mandela Washington Fellows

Do something different today?

Adebayo Alonge

 Introduction
- Adebayo Alonge
YALI Key Learning Points
Initiatives
Conclusion

Introduction: Adebayo Alonge

UI-trained
professional
pharmacist
MBA from Lagos
Business School
Mandela
Washington Fellow
in Business at Yale
Runs a social
business
distributing
medicines in Lagos
and Ibadan

Washington Fellowship Key Learning Points

From
Yale
Every business must
have a theory of
change that defines
why it exists

Washington Fellowship Key Learning Points

From
Yale

Experiment with your minimum viable

product

Washington Fellowship Key Learning Points

From Presidential
Summit

Young people are responsible for

bringing about the change they seek

Initiatives

Lusoy is donating half-a-million naira

to
1. Set up The young capital for
entrepreneurial girls
initiative to fund businesses
of rural girls aged 15-20 years
2. Donate period kits to 50 girls
aged 10-15 years in two rural
secondary schools
Both projects will run in Lagos and
Ibadan
What will you do different
today?

Start something different today. Leave a legacy

for tomorrow

Conclusion
If you had to choose a time in world history in which to be born,
and you didnt know who you were or what your status or position
would be, youd choose today!
But the great thing about being young is you are not bound by the
past, and you can shape the future. And if all of you work hard and
work together, and remain confident in your possibilities, and arent
deterred when you suffer a setback, but you get back up, and you
dust yourself off, and you go back at it, I have no doubt that youre
going to leave behind for the next generation and the generation
after that an Africa that is strong and vibrant and prosperous, and is
ascendant on the world stage