A partnership between Lagos Business School and local innovators is using digital finance to empower small business owners.
At the Ingrid Hope Foundation, we partner with communities, researchers, and local leaders to turn promising ideas into lasting progress. This story is one window into that work — the people closest to the challenge, the tools they are building, and the partnerships that help scale what works.
Progress is never automatic. It depends on sustained investment, evidence, and the courage to try new approaches when old ones fall short. The people featured here remind us that better outcomes are possible when knowledge, resources, and solidarity move together.
Why it matters
A partnership between Lagos Business School and local innovators is using digital finance to empower small business owners. The foundation’s role is to help accelerate that progress — by backing innovation, strengthening delivery systems, and elevating voices from the front lines.
We will keep sharing stories like this because they show what is possible when partners refuse to accept preventable suffering as inevitable.