Nollywood actress Yvonne Jegede is hitting the 20-year mark in the film industry, and she's launching a foundation plus an investment company to celebrate. She wants actors to stop the whole living-in-fame-but-dying-broke thing by getting them to invest in their futures instead of begging for public handouts when health problems hit.
Jegede has been quietly funding education for 18 adopted kids while backing single parents on the side, but she's putting real structure behind it to scale up the impact. The plan involves getting 5,000 children through school over five years and hooking up 100 single parents with businesses within two years. She's throwing sickle cell awareness campaigns into local communities as well, while talking about how the past two decades felt like pure self-discovery since she started acting young.
Jegede has been quietly funding education for 18 adopted kids while backing single parents on the side, but she's putting real structure behind it to scale up the impact. The plan involves getting 5,000 children through school over five years and hooking up 100 single parents with businesses within two years. She's throwing sickle cell awareness campaigns into local communities as well, while talking about how the past two decades felt like pure self-discovery since she started acting young.
