Whoopy Yun: Raising Fashion Giants in Africa

So many businesses in Africa die with the founder for different reasons ranging from lack of leadership skills, vision less, lack of structure and process, no good successors etc, the case is not different in the fashion industry, most fashion businesses die sometimes when the founder is alive and sometimes when the founder die, again several researches had given different reasons for such failures.

At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we wanted to raise fashion enterprenuers who will establish a successful and sustainable fashion businesses, to do these we embarked on a mini research and we found 2 major factors that make fashion businesses in Africa die prematurely are 

1. Lack of skill: a lot can sew but few can sew professionally.

2. Paucity of business running skills: its easy to start a business (if you have access to money/capital), but really hard to run a business successfully.

To bridge these gap, we don't just teach our students how to sew, we teach them how to sew professionally and how to run a successful and sustainable business in our environment, we are raising African giants💪🏼💪🏼

So we started a new cohort of #fash4Dev and we invited a business coach, Mr Wale Adebayo to take our students on entrepreneurship class and it has been wow!!! 

He taught setting up a business, raising capital, setting goals, vision, getting staff, marketing, systems & processes etc I am sure our students lives and businesses will never remain the same after his teachings, we shall be having more facilitators come in. 

Watch out for these women!

XoXo Whoopy Yun

Fash4Dev debut

It is no longer news that there is inequality and poverty in the world, as much as different research from different organizations shows that poverty is reducing, the reality on the street is different, Nigeria recently became the poverty capital and the reality in everyday experience is just not something i am Comfortable with.

For a very long time i was angry that i was given birth into the enviromnent i find myself, i see how babies die due to simple sickness the parents couldnt handle either due to none availability of health center, no money to pay private hospital or pausity of equipments at hopitals, i hate to see children malnourished, kids hawking on the streets exposed to different types of dangers and vices, the list is endless.

I wanted to help, I wanted to help people get people out of extreme poverty, but I don't know how to.

 Fash4Dev means fashion for development, it was born out of the need to reduce rising youth unemployment by creating jobs in the fashion industry.

 I have been working on the dream by training people with the little available resources. Recently, we got support from a US based organization called World Connect, world connect provided us with equipments for sewing and the equipment that aids both teaching and learning. 

We selected wonderful women that made teaching easy and the support we got from friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and total strangers has been WOW!!! 

I believe an individual can make impact and the ripple effect of the impact is unknown. Do your best for humanity.

XoXo Whoopy Yun😁