"Don’t wait until you hit jackpot before you start that business because you might never start. You can use your garage, it can be your car boot, just start."
- Chioma Angela Ukonu is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Recycle Points Limited, a waste recycling and social benefit venture that operates an incentive-based scheme in Nigeria. Chioma is a Certified Social Sector Manager and Social Entrepreneur with focus on environmental sustainability, poverty eradication, women empowerment, youth employment and community engagement. She is a member of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, a YALI “Green Champion”, a Mandela Washington Fellow, a LEAP Africa Social Innovators Fellow, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) Alumna and she most recently took the second place prize in the global Chivas Venture competition in Los Angeles for social enterprises who have solutions for pressing social issues.