Hesey Design’s creative director, Eseoghene Odiete has made
it to the top 10 finalists list of the Africa Connected competition by Google.
Eseoghene who started Hesey Designs in July 2012 is a graduate of Covenant
University.
She started Hesey Designs, a women’s accessories label,
right out of the university. She used Google Search and YouTube to learn how to
create handbags and via Search found contacts for blogs and magazines to
feature her products. Her bags, which she now sells through her business
website, have been featured in over 100 blogs, 10 magazines and even on African
Magic’ Star Gist. Helping others create a source of income, Eseoghene also
conducts training classes for other women who want to learn her trade and build
a similar business for themselves. She was also a source of inspiration to
other young people when she was invited to speak at Ibukun Awosika’s Ignite TV
in July 2013.
In her video, she shares some start up experience which can
be inspiring to other young people. Her dream is to build her business into an
international brand that promotes African designs.
The power of the web is changing lives in Africa every day.
Africa Connected. Success stories powered by the web is an initiative by Google
in collaboration with our partners that is aimed at creating a platform to:
Drive the largest collection of inspiring stories about ventures
established on or propelled by the web by Africans in Africa, demonstrate how
these achievements are having social and economic impact in the everyday lives
of people across the continent and
encourage users of the web in Africa to learn more about all the things that
they can do on the web with Google.
After 6 months and thousands of submissions from across 35
countries in Africa, 10 Africans were selected by the judges to go through to
the final public voting stage. Now it’s up to you to choose the top 5.
Here is the link to the video: http://www.africaconnected.com/be-inspired/107170997201853728367-sme-en/
Please vote for her to stand a chance of winning over N4m. Remember she once gave some of you free bags last year on this blog. So she has been good to us. Will you be voting? I will be voting, and trust you will too. Oya lets go, it’s just only one click away.
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