FSD Premises at 2 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State

FSD will be having the following PROGRAMS  in May 2012 on our premises – You cannot afford to Miss any of these programs.

May 3rd – Learn to Cook 6 Traditional Dishes – N10k – One day Practical Class

• Afang – the original
• Edi ka Ikong – the original
• Efo Riro – the original
• Egusi Soup – the original
• Olugbu Soup – the original
• Moin Moin
• Ofada Rice & Ofada Sauce – the original way

May 10th – Entrepreneurship Development Training Starts  - N10k – 8classes – Thursdays Only. This program is run in partnership with CBN Franchise holders for EDT and the bonus is that you get 18months Free Business Mentoring from your personalized trainer once you complete the course. Under the platform of this course manyrecently qualified for the YOU WIN funding program of the Federal Government of Nigeria. This platform also qualifies you to access the single – digit interest regime on loans from Nerfund.

May 29th – Chinese Menu Training – 10k – 6dishes – classes are fully Practical.

• Chicken & Corn Soup
• Chicken Spring Rolls
• Lolly Pop Chicken
• Chicken in Black Bean Sauce
• Beef in Green Pepper
• Singapore Noodles with …………

We may top it up with a bonus – drink……………..

May 31st – FSD Open House. Admission is FREE. This is a day we throw our doors open to all visitors. Our students display their works, they showcase their newly acquired abilities and we feed you from their delicious menu – pastries, cakes, chinese dishes, traditional soups, exotic drinks, etc.

At our Open House, there will be a Pot – Luck Draw and you can take home anything from – a beautiful garment made by our designers, a bag, slippers, jewelry, a beautifully decorated cake, a wig or even a decorative piece for your sitting room.

Our Open House also comes with a Bonus is – we teach you a simple skill for FREE on that day – its 1st come 1st served.

FSD Program Officers, Staff, Alumni & Trainees all look forward to welcoming you at all of these programs.

Please Call or Send an Email to reserve your Space.

Thank you

The April Seminar on Thursday 26^th April – EMPOWER ME – promises to show case the best so far in terms of tangible financial and non-financial support for your businesses.

Seminar Highlights:

• Opening Remarks – USA Embassy
• Telling My Story: A Nigerian Business Owner – to talk about the Mindset Transformation required in moving from Employee to Employer Status……..he moved from being an Office Assistant to an International Business Owner employing foreigners here in Nigeria.
• Professional Management Trainer from Readiness Edge USA – an expert in setting skills right for MSME owners:
• Discovery Session: Learn a New Business Idea……always at our seminars
• A very special appearance by a former keynote speaker to anchor our Question & Answer Session.
• Launching of Empower Me Initiative by a European Entrepreneur

EMPOWER ME Initiative is a Financial + Non – Financial Business Support Porfolio which has 3 categories of Benefits:

• Free Sponsorship to a Business Management Course – 20 Immediate Beneficiaries
• Interest free Funds – 30 – 50 Immediate Beneficiaries
• 3 Business Mentoring Sessions by Professionals – 25 Immediate beneficiaries

Date: Thursday April 26^th 2012. Venue: ADEBOLA House, Opebi Road, Ikeja

Pre-Registration Required – Call, Text or Email

 Please Call: 07025377818, 08027207203, 07084911154, 08124097959, 08181516564, 018198108

Free Empower Me Forms for all three (3) categories of Beneficiaries will be distributed ONLY at the Seminar.

Gate Fee: N2, 500 – Payable Before the Date Only.

All payments to: Skye Bank, Adeola Hopewell Branch

Account Name: Foundation for Skills Development

Account Number – 1770033538

We look forward to seeing you there. Please come with a friend.

Thank you.

- Another of our trainees is off to the USA for a 3week Free Entrepreneurship Program. Nominated and Selected through FSD and Sponsored Fully by the USA Government. Remember we always say Promises are kept at our Programs

- FSD has started training this year for business owners in the area of business management – sponsored by the CBN through the EDC & FSD has started running its Vocational Training which covers hair Dressing, Cakes, Pastries, Cooking, Fashion and Textile Designing, etc. Please visit our website for a preview. Its www.foundationforskillsdevelopment.com

Our 1st WISB event this year will be launching 2major funds specifically for women; the funds are not coming from any of the banks. if you have been at our programs, you know SMEDAN told us these Funds are available and here we are finally presenting them – Please Do Not Miss the next WISB!

• An interest free fund to support Women in SME, financed by a Nigerian business man. This will give you short term loans with NO INTEREST
• A fund with interest rates BUT no questions, no collateral specifically for women. This will give you loans, with interest but NO LONG QUESTIONING & No Collateral Required.

It happened again!!! Thank you to all our partners – you made this happen to these less priviledged children in the heart of Oshodi, lagos sate; where 5schools smiled away on the 14th December with books and one library + 2 other reading centres.

FSD donated a fully furnished, computerised, internet ready library to a school in Oshodi; also opened reading centres in two other schools in the sameneighbourhood and donated books to two additional schools – making 5 outreach posts in one day.

On the 14th December 2011, FSD declared open the library at Oshodi Comprehensive Junior High School with 1673books – textbooks, classic novels, soft literature, journals and charts.

The same day FSD donated over 550 books EACH to open 2 other reading centres in Bolade Senior High School and Army Cantonment Senior High School, Oshodi.

At the same event FSD donated 250 notebooks, 100 textbooks and other educational materials including charts to EACH of Unity Junior High School and Ideal Primary School in Oshodi.

The library at Oshodi Comprehensive Junior High School, Oshodi was declared open by Mr Peter Pines of the USA Embassy, Nigeria.

FSD Dedicated this particular library to the IVLP Project; because she grew the idea from her 1st IVLP exposure in 2006.