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Ashoka team applauds Farm to School Program In October 2018, Ashoka team from France, Burkina-Faso, Senegal and Nigeria visited Springboard. The team also visited some of the schools of the Farm

In 2017, I visited Lawrence Afere and his project, Springboard – near Akure, Nigeria. I imagined going to a small plantain farm for an afternoon excursion, seeing the farm and

In line with the Federal Government efforts to make agriculture attractive to youths and drive their involvement, Farm to School Africa has trained a total 1, 800 students across five

In 2007, when Lawrence Alaba Afere graduated from university, he shocked his family with the news that he was not going to use his business management degree to land a

Lawrence Afere from Nigeria is the winner of the first cewas Start-up Competition. His business idea “Green Pads” convinced both the jury and the audience. As a banana farmer Lawrence

Lawrence Afere, Founder of Springboard, will speak at two major global International conferences in February and March 2015. MOSES Organic Farming Conference Lawrence will be speaking at the 2015 MOSES

In 2014, Lawrence, founder of Springboard, was selected as one of the 500 Washington Fellows for Young African Leaders, a President Obama initiative to train young Africans in Business, Public

Springboard will soon begin production and training in its new building that will be commissioned before the second quarter 2015.   Full-scale plantain chips production will commence at the new