SOS MENTORING in Russia and in the world

20.04.2020

Entrepreneurship support network Youth Business International (YBI), uniting youth business programmes in 56 countries worldwide has launched a new global initiative SOS MENTORING to support 30,000 entrepreneurs in the countries of presence leveraging the expertise of 15,000 mentors.

Youth Business Russia programme (YBR) and the Mentoring Institute (MI) took part in development of the new initiative and is determined to actively promote it in Russia and to expand it into the Russophone YBI programmes. The initiative was launched at an international level at the YBI webinar on the 16th of April, with YBR and MI CEO Boris Tkachenko as one of the speakers and a member of the initiative project team. In Russia, it started on Thursday April 16 with the webinar “Challenges facing mentors and solutions”. The audience included the mentors supporting social entrepreneurs through Impact Hub Moscow programmes.

Check here for a brief outline on the initiative worldwide at YBI notice at
https://www.youthbusiness.org/news/sos-mentoring

The details on the initiative implementation in Russia will be announced later.