Foundtion grants N10m to small scale entrepreneurs

The Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim Foundation, a non-profit humanitarian organization has awarded a grant of 10million naira to some small scale entrepreneurs in Abuja as  part of her economic empowerment programme for vulnerable section of society. 

The Foundation, promoted by a former presidential Candidate, Mr Gbenga  Olawepo-Hashim gave N50,000 to each of the 200 beneficiaries 

In his speech at the event, Olawepo-Hashim explained that his gesture, which is to give back to the society, has no relationship to his political aspirations. 

According to him, "I have been doing this for decades. I have a passion to make society better. That was why I was involved in student unionism in those days. I was also involved in the Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) and now I'm a businessman. So, one way to intervene is in the area of economic empowerment.

He added that "what I can do at this time when things are really bad is to show love to underprivileged people in particular, and that we have been doing for decades. We have done training of young people in this digital acquisition over 1000 of them. So this is going to be continuous thing."