Whoopy Yun's first nomination 🤸🏽🕺🏼💃🏼

2020 has been an interesting year, like everything about life, its been filled with different ups and downs.

We started the year doing our own thing, doing what we know how to do best, impacting knowledge, first we got our first mini-grant to train women which debut our fash4dev cohort1, fash4dev is an initiative of Whoopy Yun fashion house and Whoopy Yun fashion school to raise 1,000 youths out of unemployment and extreme poverty, with this initiative we met 12 wonderful women. Fash4dev has its different challenges and as we are trying to weather the storm, covid-19 strike and shut down the world, we temporarily suspended all trainings and business activities, for a WHOLE MONTH, it was a tough period, one we are yet to recover from. Life of an entrepreneur you say😒😕

Waking up this morning to see an Instagram notification, we checked and boom!💥 we have been nominated for fashion school of the year 💃🏼🕺🏼💃🏼🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🤸🏽🕺🏼💃🏼,  keeping calm was hard and is still hard💃🏼🕺🏼🤸🏽💃🏼🤸🏽😎🕶 because we are not sure who nominated us, but we sure love the feeling that someone somewhere think we deserve to be at the top💃🏼🕺🏼🤸🏽.

Someone somewhere is watching what we do and believe in us, its not a win yet but we sure feels like a winner. We say a big thank you to the person(s) who nominated us🙏🏼 thank you, nag ode, ese,Dalu.

We need you all to support us during the voting period and with your help we can take the award home.

XoXo Whoopy Yun

Fash4dev: Digital space meets fashion

It is no longer news that we are Ina digital world, it is also not a big deal if you hear about website or apps for different use, however thousands of businesses still exist in Africa without an online presence, thousands of businesses in Nigeria are still not benefitting from the power of technology and enjoy the tremendous opportunities available in the digital space.

For our students not to be a part of the stone age fashion designers, we invited one of the Ibadan finest web and app designers, who is also a google representative in Ibadan Mr Femi Akintoye to speak with our students on the power of app and website for businesses.

It was a fun time learning and the Q&A time was really fun.

Guess what!!!! 🤔 All Whoopy Yun students and #fash4dev students are getting a huge discount on web design from him💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼.

One more reason to join us at Whoopy Yun Fashion School.

For us at Whoopy Yun we are not just Simplifying the Science,art and craft of fashion, we are taking our student to the next big level, its fashion beyond sewing.

Fashion Illustration at Whoopy Yun Fashion School

It is a known fact that not everyone who can sew can create style, what makes a fashion designer is not just the ability to sew, but ability to do so many things that involves creating a complete fabulous garments.

At Whoopy Yun Fashion School, we are teaching our students how to sew, how to identify fabrics, what fabrics works for what styles and we are teaching our students how to dig deep into their creativity well, how to be innovative in the fashion world,how to envision a style in their mind/head and turn it into a real picture with our design and Illustration class.

The new set of students started yesterday 2nd March,2020, we asked them to try and draw🤣😂 and we all laughed at the different drawings but as the class proceeds, we can clearly see some improvements and its just a class by the end of the month, wonderful croquis and illustration with painting will emerge from Whoopy Yun fashion school students, not just that we will birth the new generation of fashionprenuers.

YES you can............ if LEARN how to.

XoXo

 Whoopy Yun

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😁