Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago Information

Our Vision "Building a Sustainable Future, Through Entrepreneurship" Our Mission “To help young entrepreneurs who would not otherwise have the opportunity, to fulfill their ambition, and contribute to the community through the medium of self-employment and development of their self-confidence’ Its mandate was to play a leadership role in building, releasing and sustaining the entrepreneurial spirit in economically disadvantaged young people between the ages of 18 and 35, by increasing opportunities for them to start and grow strong, sustainable business through providing finance in the form of loans up to $30,000, mentorship, training and networking opportunities. Now in its 14th year of operation, YBTT has built solid partnerships with donor organizations. United Way Trinidad and Tobago, Massy Foundation, JB Fernandes Memorial Trust I, Republic Bank Limited continues to support its work annually. Over the years the group of donors was expanded to include international agencies (IADB), public sector agencies (Ministry of National Security), international partners (British Gas Trinidad and Tobago, USAID) YBTT’s involvements have expanded in several ways. Since 2010 it has joined and contributed to the conversation on youth entrepreneurship in T&T building a solid reputation with key public and private sector partners. In November 2010, it hosted Global Entrepreneurship Week and has continued to do so for the last 4 years, steadily expanding the quantity and quality of its GEW partners, stakeholders and activities, thus increasing its reach to young entrepreneurs. The NGO’s momentum and thus social and economic impact has peaked and ebbed over the years. There were times when the funding was inadequate and thus it moved away from its initial reliance on fund-raising by Directors, to generation of funding support through strengthening and expanding its relationships with donor agencies.