Youth Entrepreneurship
Shell LiveWIRE is a social investment programme geared towards building entrepreneurship in young Trinbagonians. The programme first began in Scotland in 1982 and has since grown to a total of 17 active programmes globally (check). Ultimately, LiveWIRE aims to encourage enterprise awareness among the youth of T&T, supporting international trade and local innovation in the process.
Shell LiveWIRE is our flagship global Enterprise Development Programme, with a vision to strengthen local economies by promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and meaningful employment.
Shell Trinidad and Tobago believes that by providing young entrepreneurs with the necessary skills, training, mentoring and financial assistance, they will be equipped to transform business ideas into sustainable sources of income and job creation - which will in turn, stimulate local economic growth.
In 2017, Shell Trinidad and Tobago launched the LiveWire programme and implemented it in collaboration with Youth Business Trinidad & Tobago (YBTT) Ltd; a local entrepreneurship development organisation. The programme has successfully assisted small entrepreneurs to grow and expand their businesses with 16 graduates and 18 new participants in 2020.
The LiveWire Programme is designed to support and encourage youth entrepreneurship and thereby address economic diversification from the energy sector to other forms of sustainability.
Read what several of our LiveWire recipients say about the programme:
"Participating in the Shell Livewire programme was transformative for me. What I came in thinking was my business, I left completely changed. It allowed me to streamline my service offerings which allowed me to perfect my lane of work: waste education, training and consultancy." Sian Cuffy-Young, CEO, Siel Environmental Services Limited. Sian Cuffy-Young, CEO, Siel Environmental Services Limited
“The Shell LiveWiRE program helped me to truly understand the concept that No individual can adjust the direction of the wind, but as entrepreneurs and innovators, it's our duty to adjust the Sails, to reach our desired destination” Harlon Mark, CEO & MD of Operations – Organo Gardens
For more information, visit the Shell LiveWIRE TT website at https://tt.livewire.shell/