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UBC Sauder LIFT: Africa

UBC Sauder School of Business LIFT: Kenya is an entrepreneurship training program delivered to disadvantaged communities in Kenya and Ghana. It challenges UBC Sauder students to apply business concepts they’ve learned by teaching in a classroom of aspiring entrepreneurs. Students deliver a series of lessons on business fundamental tools through the year virtually, and in-person in May to empower local entrepreneurs to start and grow their own businesses for economic betterment.

LIFT Team

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Program Highlights

LIFT—standing for Leadership, Innovation, Fundamentals, and Training—transcends international borders, bringing essential business skills to entrepreneurs in communities that lack access to business education.

1000+

Entrepreneurs Trained

80+

Active Sauder students

10

Cohorts (2024-2025)