Business incubation

A good idea needs money and support to become a business. We stay with our graduates through the hard first months.

A YEEL graduate's business

Every step builds on the one before.

  • A participant presenting a business plan

    Pitch the plan

    Graduates present their business plan as the final exam.

  • A graduate holding her seed funding award

    Seed funding

    The strongest plans receive seed funding and equipment.

  • A YEEL graduate's business

    Loans

    Growing businesses can borrow to take the next step.

  • A trainer handing a business plan back to a participant

    Mentoring

    Advisers follow each business through the start-up phase.

What our graduates have built

A YEEL graduation ceremony
$500Kin seed funding
380new businesses
Graduates holding their seed funding awards
  • Sakhia Deeq with a customer in Abid Fashion

    Abid Fashion

    Sakhia Deeq · Tailoring

  • Cabdisalaan Abokor Cige at his beehives

    Shini Maal

    Cabdisalaan Abokor Cige · Honey

  • Haboon Xabiib Cabdillahi doing henna

    Hiddaraac Beauty

    Haboon Xabiib Cabdillahi · Henna

  • Ramla Carab Yusuf in her shop

    Dhalad Fashion and Perfumes

    Ramla Carab Yusuf · Perfumes

Sakhia Deeq at her sewing machine in Abid Fashion
"YEEL's training changed my life. I started a tailor shop that employs 25 people today."
Sakhia DeeqOwner of Abid Fashion

Graduates from Hargeisa, Burao and Borama talk about the training and the businesses they started. In Somali with English subtitles.

Businesses our graduates run

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