KCA UNIVERSITY 1ST ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS WEEK FORUM
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| From( L-R): Joy Aketch, Hashmukh Dawda and Ronny Osumba |
KCA University concludes its inaugural business week today at
the University main campus, Ruaraka. The business
week concept is a brain child of Centre for entrepreneurship and Leadership
(CE&L), a department within the University whose focus is promoting
entrepreneurship among students and faculty.
The week is an opportunity to
show case the initiatives KCA University is undertaking with the current and
former students to create employment. The center nurtures students to
identify entrepreneurial ideas and business solutions that would be the next big
business venture with a sustainable competitive advantage.
The forum
also provides students, alumni, partners and sponsors an opportunity to come
together to network for business mentorship and encouragement. Seasoned successful
entrepreneurs are at hand to support the exhibitors. Among them Ronald Osumba - Head of
Government Relations at Safaricom Ltd. whose youthfulness has been an
inspiration to the audience. The other key speaker is Dr. Hashmukh Dawda
(Chairman-House of Dawda), whose story is one of the rugs to riches and a true
example that determination and dedication leads to prosperity.
This is a
very important initiative that the university has pioneered to bring together
its competence and experience in capacity building and business incubation,
while seeking partners who will mentor and fund the business ideas from KCA
University students and other youth attracted to the Centre.
The institution believes that it
can establish strong partnerships in the areas of ICT and Business. KCA
University through some of its students has developed great innovation and ideas
that need support to see the light of the day.
KCA
University calls upon the stakeholders to support us and help transform this
event into a National forum where Academia, entrepreneurs, industrialists,
Government, and financial institutions would regularly meet to discourse and
generate timely and innovative solutions to transform this country.
Sponsors
of the forum includes- Youth Fund, Business Networking International, Rafiki
Deposit Taking Micro Finance, ABCIC, Youth T.V, Directorate of Youth Affairs
and Nafisika, Pinton top, Intell soft, African Centre for Computing, Gardena
and SAKU.
