Fotabe Elmine
Lecturer, Social Entrepreneur, Speaker, Corporate trainer and Philanthropist.
Fotabe Elmine is a university lecturer, Social Entrepreneur, speaker, corporate trainer and Philanthropist. She is the founder and Board Chair of the Fotabe University of Cameroon-FUNIC.
Her vision for the University is a community university that provides the best quality and affordable education to every young African desirous of a good education.
Fotabe Elmine is an advocate for TVET, and has founded three TVET centers in Cameroon to train university graduates, women and African Artists. In 2015, Fotabe Elmine founded the Association for the Promotion of Decent Work for Women and Girls (ASSPRODEC).” ASSPRODEC supports education of the girl child, promotes entrepreneurship among women, and advocates for good working conditions for domestic workers. Since its creation, ASSPRODEC has offered more than four hundred Scholarships to young girls, who were not given the opportunity of acquiring education because of their gender. Her actions have saved many rural and urban women and internally displaced girls from financial exclusion, prostitution, early marriages, gender-based violence, and exploitation.
Elmine is also passionate about educating children. In 2016, she created a learning platform through which children in rural areas of Cameroon without access to the internet and electricity can acquire basic education.
Fotabe Elmine has won numerous awards, including Entrepreneurial woman of the year in 2021, and the US Chamber of Commerce Courage Award in 2022.