Aiducation One Thousand Young Entrepreneurs Start-Up Fund Winner
We are delighted to share a blog post that highlights the impact of our start-up fund, One Thousand young entrepreneurs, which was created to support young entrepreneurs in Kenya. Aiducation, with the support of its partners, is committed to providing the necessary resources to help aspiring business owners overcome the unique challenges they face in Kenya's competitive market. The start-up fund has played a significant role in empowering young entrepreneurs to turn their business ideas into reality.
In this blog post, one of the start-up fund winners, Boniface Mwadime, shares his story of how the fund is going to help him kickstart his business, overcome obstacles, and make a significant impact in his community. We hope that his story inspires other young entrepreneurs to apply for the start-up fund and pursue their dreams of owning successful businesses.
My name is Boniface Mwadime, an Aidualumni having graduated from high school in 2011. I joined Aiducation International Kenya scholarship program in 2009. By then, I had set my mind on being a change-maker in the world. I was not sure of the how and what. I just had my eyes affixed on the why. At this time, Aiducation had started organizing informal trainings (academies) for their scholars where mentors would come to teach and inspire us on different aspects of life. These academies were pivotal events to my distant dream.
How Aiducation Training Programs ignited my entrepreneurship spirit
After attending a battery of academies, the entrepreneurship spirit was ignited in me. I wanted to be a change-making entrepreneur. I joined the university to do an environmental course, so the change was now attuned to something that makes Mother Earth a better place to live in. The experience and transformation change in myself for the time I have been a part of Aiducation family is phenomenal. I have seen myself growing in confidence and getting a few key approaches to life directly.
Following several attempts at the start-up fund application, my efforts bore fruits when the Stage 2 start-up fund application was launched in mid-2022. At this point, I teamed up with a like-minded friend and came up with the idea of San Feed Limited. San Feed Limited is an agro-based start-up that plans to produce highly proteinous animal feeds from organic waste. It incorporates the use of a special kind of insect fly called the Black Soldier Fly whose larvae are about five times the size of ordinary house fly larvae. It is these larvae that are dried and become nitrogenous feed for fish, pigs and poultry. 
Production process
Impact of the Start-Up Fund
With the funds, I will be able to set up a business location where I would be running the day-to-day activities. I will also set up the necessary infrastructure for the processing, storage and marketing of the packaged product.
Our projections of the business are in the near future, San Feed Limited to be a regional supplier of reliable, cost-saving and highly nutritious feeds. We are looking into becoming a model business in the field of a circular and sustainable economy. We want our brand to be out there competing and grabbing a niche in the waste recycling industry.
Message to other young entrepreneurs
As a beneficiary of the Stage Two Start-Up Fund (A Thousand Young Entrepreneurs) by Aiducation International in collaboration with the SwissRe Foundation, I would encourage the youth to apply for the next stage. The future is in the hands of creators and entrepreneurship is all about innovation and creation. Anyone can create great opportunities if they set their mind and with the right support. The world has its hands open to entrepreneurs. Welcome to this world of a thousand young entrepreneurs.
Written by Boniface Mwadime Mwasaru, One thousand entrepreneurs start-up fund winner and an AiduTalent from Kenya