El-Sophi Community & Child Care Initiative

A B2C social enterprise leveraging digital technology to tackle systemic poverty while bridging the digital and financial gender divide between women and men.

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Consumer Services
  • Location Anyigba, Nigeria
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2012
  • Employees 15
  • Incorporation Type Other
  • Website elsophi.org

Company Summary

ELSOPHI Community & Child Care Initiative is a social enterprise working to improve community and family livelihoods and fostering social inclusion for the vulnerable and marginalized in African communities. We are on a mission to empower the vulnerable and marginalized to move out of systemic and extreme poverty, to live the fullness of life and maximize their God given potentials.

Team

  • Founder/President

    Japhet is an accomplished impact entrepreneur with a passion to save families and communities in Africa from systemic and extreme poverty. In 2012 he founded an organization committed to this cause. Japhet believes that an Africa free from systemic and extreme poverty is possible and he has chosen the path of entrepreneurship to contribute to this reality

  • Board Technical Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation

    With over 15years in Community development and humanitarian projects in Nigeria, She has worked on various USAID funded project including; USAID-LOPIN 2 with WEWE Nigeria, USAID-ASSIST with URC Nigeria and USAID SUCCOUR OVC with Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. She is a professional project manager with APMG international certification and an improvement science coach specialist with demonstrated skills in humanitarian service delivery.

  • Pharm. Michael Olabode Tomori
    Board Technical Advisor, Heath and Project Management

    a visionary leader, knowledgeable, courageous, straight - forward, brave, a goal-oriented go-getter who leads from the front. with over fifteen years in development work in Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Public Health from University of Central Nicaragua South America and a Master of Business Administration in Supply Chain Management from Malaysia University of Science and Technology. His strongest points include his courage, honesty and integrity.

  • Board Technical Advisor, Finance, Audit and Compliance

    A finance expert and an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) with over 10 years’ experience in various professional and responsible capacities. He has served in the capacity of Grants, Finance and Compliance Specialist during which he brought to the fore his diverse professional experiences that caused greater improvement in the financial management and reporting activities of the respective organizations.

  • Member, Technical Advisory Board

    A seasoned and passionate statistician with great love and affection for children and women. She has over 10 years of experience in social protection works. She willingly volunteers her resources to reach out to the vulnerable and marginalize around her with a commitment to contribute to ending extreme poverty. As a skilled fashionist, she provides fashion skills support for teenage and young girls as a means of empowerment and mentorship.

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