01 / LEARN
Practical skills
Training designed around real work, real businesses and the skills today’s opportunities demand.
Skills · Enterprise · Leadership
See potential.
Lead change.
We equip African youth and women with practical skills, enterprise support and pathways to meaningful opportunity.
Who we are
Talent is everywhere. Access is not.
See and Lead Africa Initiative is a development-focused organisation helping people move from potential to participation. We create practical learning experiences, connect emerging leaders to useful networks and help entrepreneurs become ready for wider markets.
Our work centres the people too often left outside the room—especially young people and women ready to learn, build and lead.
02 / BUILD
Enterprise readiness
Support that helps founders strengthen products, prepare for export and enter new markets with confidence.
03 / LEAD
Pathways to progress
Partnerships, internships and scholarships that turn learning into tangible next steps.
A conversation from our community
Design Thinking for Global Markets
The “Design Thinking for Global Markets” session reflects SLAI’s focus on helping entrepreneurs think beyond local demand. It connects customer-led ideas, practical skills and the ambition to prepare Nigerian enterprises for wider markets.
Our programmes
Learning that meets opportunity.
Focused programmes built with industry and community partners, designed to create practical outcomes.
✦Enterprise
Export Readiness
Hands-on support for entrepreneurs covering product standards, market access and the confidence to compete across borders.
⌁Travel & aviation
Industry Skills Training
International air-ticketing and Galileo GDS training that prepares young people for careers in travel and aviation.
↗Innovation
Tech Entrepreneurship
Practical learning that helps emerging founders turn useful ideas into sustainable, market-ready ventures.
◎Access
Scholarships & Internships
Targeted access to training and workplace experience for promising individuals ready to take their next step.
⌁Agriculture
Enterprise & Livelihoods
Field-based learning and enterprise conversations that help young people see agriculture as a path to productive livelihoods.
✦Community
Service & Leadership
Community activities that nurture responsibility, collaboration and a practical commitment to positive change.
Upcoming · 27 November 2026 · Abuja, Nigeria
Export Readiness Conference 2026
“From Local Enterprise to Global Market: Financing, Trade and Market Access for Nigerian Businesses.”
The conference will bring together entrepreneurs, SMEs and MSMEs, manufacturers, farmers, exporters, financial institutions, government agencies, development organisations and international trade stakeholders. Together, they will explore practical ways to prepare Nigerian businesses for regional and international markets.
Enquire about the conference ↗Programmes held
Moments from our work.
Photos shared from community activities, practical projects and the people connected to SLAI.
Community activity
Young people working together outdoors.
Practical activity
Learning through hands-on participation.
Community service
Working together for local communities.
Our people
The people who bring the mission to life.
Women in trade
Celebrating AfCFTA Women in Trade
Celebrating the strength and resilience of the African woman in business, and the voices helping women take part in regional and global trade.
How we work
From learning to livelihood.
Training matters most when it opens a door. Every SLAI programme is shaped to help participants learn something useful, apply it in context and move towards a real opportunity.
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Listen locally
We begin with community needs and the barriers people actually face.
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Build with experts
We work alongside industry, institutions and practitioners.
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Create a pathway
Learning connects to mentorship, markets, internships or further support.
Partnerships
Progress is a team effort.
We welcome organisations that want to co-create training, sponsor access, provide internships or help entrepreneurs reach new markets.
Corporate partnersGovernment agenciesTraining providersDevelopment organisationsMentors & volunteers
Contact SLAI
Bring an opportunity. Build a programme. Support a future.
Whether you want to partner, volunteer, sponsor a participant or learn more about our programmes, our team would be glad to hear from you.
Make opportunity possible