Winning Wednesday with our Entrepreneur- Elia Timotheo
Our entrepreneur, Elia Timotheo from Tanzania is the CEO of East Africa Fruit Farm and Company which trades and markets fresh fruit and vegetables, significantly reducing post-harvest losses.
We are proud to share our entrepreneur’s success story with you as he bagged the African Entrepreneurship Award for the best business idea in the Environment category.
His company was founded and registered in 2013 and currently operating with 6 full time employees + more than 13 casual. He was also featured on CNN where he discussed his business
About The Tony Elumelu Foundation
The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries, and ensuring inclusive economic empowerment. Since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, the Foundation has trained over 1.5 million young Africans on its digital hub, TEFConnect, and disbursed nearly USD$100 million in direct funding to 18,000 African women and men, who have collectively created over 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. The Foundation’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.
