Adejoke Lasisi Email & Phone Number

Adejoke LASISI is an African fabric designer and environmentalist. She's the  founder of Planet 3R and Jokelinks Weaving School. She holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. She also holds a certificate in Entrepreneurial Management from EDC Lagos, Nigeria. Adejoke is also saving the planet using her weaving skills by converting textile and plastic wastes into innovative products.Adejoke enjoys volunteering in entrepreneurship activities both here in Nigeria and abroad.She is a 2016 Alumnus of the EDC Lagos/ Cherie Blair Foundation Road to Women’s Business Growth in Nigeria and a pioneer Cohort member of the YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa Accra, Ghana 2015. She is AYEEN 2014 Business Grant Winner, a recipient of the YALI SPIRIT AWARD at the YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa Accra, Ghana in the Young African Leaders Initiative YALI 2015 and was the runner-up for Franco-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce grant competition in 2016. She was nominated as the best indigenous textile designer at the ACE Awards 2017 and 2018. She also emerge as one of Akin Alabi Business grant winners in 2017. She is also 7eleven foundation grant winner in 2017. She received a grant for a light manufacturing through SMEDAN in 2018.She was nominated for the National MSME awards 2018 in Nigeria held at Aso-rock Abuja. She is a recipient of GEM grant (World Bank partnered with Federal government of Nigeria) and BlackKnightng in 2019. She also received a grant award from Vice president of Nigeria through NYEES platform held in May 2019 at Abuja. Adejoke emerged as one the Top5 Nigeria Creative Business Cup 2019 Pitching Contest.Also, she was certified in 2019 by First Technical University as a technical University trainer. She has showcased her products at various events and exhibitions both home and abroad. Her work and her journey has been featured on ALJAZEERA, BBC, CHANNELS TV, TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER, PUNCH NEWSPAPER, NTA and some other popular blogs.Her organization also emerged as one of the Top50 Big Bang Business Competition organized by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation UC Davis, USA.Adejoke emerged as the National MSME of the year 2020 for using her weaving skill to save the planet by converting Plastic and Textile wastes into Eco-friendly products. She was also awarded by the President of Nigeria as one of the five young INNOVATORS at Aso villa Nigeria in 2020.She recently won the Africa green grant award 2020 organized by Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation. I will update 2021 soon

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  Obafemi Awolowo University

  Economics