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BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Black Entrepreneur Blueprint 370 - Olowo-n'djo Tchala - From Poverty To Successful Social Entrepreneur

BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Jay Jones

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8680 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Join Jay on today's Black Entrepreneur Blueprint episode # 370 as he talks with the founder of Alaffia Skin & Haircare Mr. Olowo-n'djo Tchala. Olowo-n'djo takes us on his amazing entrepreneur journey from poverty and dropping out of school to building a multimillion-dollar business that cultivates beauty, equality, and empowerment in West Africa through the fair trade of indigenous resources and community empowerment projects such as maternal health care, education, and agriculture. Visit https://www.alaffia.com/

 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Show.

0:21.4

I am your host, Jay Jones.

0:24.4

Black Entrepreneur Blueprint was created specifically to educate and inspire black entrepreneurs to launch, build, and grow successful businesses.

0:35.6

Join us as we help build an economic power base in the black community by promoting

0:40.7

business ownership.

0:42.8

If you are currently an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur, we invite you to join

0:48.6

us every week here at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint.

1:01.9

Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint,

1:05.0

episode number 370.

1:06.8

I'm your host Jay Jones,

1:10.8

and today we have an outstanding and informative show in store for you.

1:17.0

Today, family, we're going to be talking to the founder of Alafia Products, Mr. Olavancho Tachala.

1:18.3

And please buckle up your seatbelts family.

1:21.6

Make sure you get the show notes to this because this is an amazing interview as we talked to the founder of Alafia products

1:29.8

who has a motto of beauty, equality, and empowerment. And we're really going to get into the

1:35.8

power and the effects of social entrepreneurship. Now listen to the type of impact that Alafia has

1:42.8

had. And these numbers are from January 1st, 2020.

1:46.6

So these numbers are old.

1:48.1

And so as of that date, Alafia has directly impacted the lives of over 250,000 individuals in West Africa.

1:56.5

And they focus on maternal care, having funded over 6,000 births, school supplies, bicycles

2:03.8

for education, school construction, eyeglasses, and reforestation, just to name a few.

2:11.4

So this is a business and an entrepreneur with the purpose of not just making money, but giving

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