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Afriversity is a Non-profit organization (NPO) founded to educate and train African entrepreneurs for the purpose of growing companies in Africa and thus, grow the economy.

Idea and launch
Afriversity is based on the "help them help themselves" idea and instead instead of taking financial aid, Africa would create a larger economy of their own and eventually become financially independant. The majority of Africa currently does not have its own economy. The founder and CEO of Afriversity is Thorgeir Einarsson. He originally hatched the idea for Afriversity together with his late business partner, John Forster. They were both impressed with the hospitality and warmth of the African people after having spent some time in Nigeria where they had helped an international shipping company develop their business and IT systems. John unfortunately died of cancer at the age of 38 before the idea could become a reality, and it was put on hold. In 2006, after moving back home to Sweden after living in London for several years, Thorgeir again started pondering the idea of giving something back to Africa. In 2007, he founded Afriversity.

Funding
Afriversity is dependant and based on outside funding and as the organisation is still in its early stages, everyone working with Afriversity at present are unpaid volunteers.

Other resources

 * Afriversity web site