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Nurturing Female Technology Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Creators with W.TEC founder Oreoluwa Somolu

Meet Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi the founder of Women’s Technology Empowerment Center or short W.TEC a nonprofit organization based in Lagos, that aims at raising the next generation of female technology entrepreneurs, leaders and developers through technology camps, school clubs and mentoring.

In the interview Oreoluwa shares

  • How she came up with the idea 
  • How she learned to run the non-profit like a business to increase their impact and scale 
  • How she has handled wearing many different hats both in the non-profit as well as in her other business and with her family 
  • And what her advice to young women in Nigeria is

She also shares what she did whenever she thought she had plateaued in her venture and how she build out different revenue streams for W.TEC aside from grants. 

There is a lot of gold in this interview and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

And now, without further ado, enter Oreoluwa.

Thomas

Thomas is initiator of Africax.org, co-founder of ecological sanitation company EcoToiletten, digital automation agency Strandschicht and the non-profit tackling youth empowerment YES Founders Foundation. He co-authored a book on Youth-led Changemaking and coaches entrepreneurs on resilience and mental well-being.