Zakari Ali
Chef
- Age 25
- Current City: Lagos (Nigeria)
- Nationality Nigerian
- What defines him Ambitious and goal oriented person with a positive mindset towards everyone.
Who is Zakari?
His childhood life has been rough, tough and intimidating because he comes from a poor background with no opportunity.
He engaged in working in a mechanic garage so he could support in raising funds for his parents to afford him a education, and studied science in secondary school.
After secondary education he couldn’t watch his parents suffer and for that reason he traveled to Lagos to look for how to help his family with their needs which has been a struggling point for him.
Zakari reached to get a job as a chef and everything went fine until Covid-19 came. From then he tries to find every day a way to live, while his dreams are always in the kitchen.
He’s a fast thinker and a good team player, and his humanistic perspective makes easy for him to connect with people.
In his spare time, he loves reading, networking and watching cooking shows.
Professional Recommendation
“Ali and I have worked for the period of 3 years, I truly enjoyed my time working with him and come to know him as a valuable asset to absolutely any team”
Chef Delion Albert
Osapa London, Lagos
Zakari's Present and Future
Present: He sees the present life as all he got to stay motivated because he can’t change the past neither fasten the future
Future: Zakari assure that his future is full of great opportunities because he’s feeding the present with hard work and consistency
The HELP program consists of three phases:
Phase one, which lasts for 12 months, is divided into 7 stages, where each Homeless Entrepreneur (HE) is assigned a coordinator and nine managers (covering the following areas: professional development, education, health, housing, finance, legal, communication, sales and general assistance).
HELP Program Status
The status meter below identifies the Homeless Entrepreneur’s current HELP program stage.
Click here to read more about our HELP Program, and understand its different phases and stages.
Monthly Milestones
Stage: Preparation
- Started Help program
- Started working with his Professional Development Coach
Stage: Online Visibility
- Started working in a Restaurant in Lagos
- Started working with his Communication Coach
Stage: Integration
- Started training with IBM Skillsbuild
Zakari’s Support Community
All of Zakari’s stakeholders play an important role in creating new sustainable opportunities that will inspire both individual and systemic change.
Wheel of Life
A wheel of life is a simple yet powerful tool for visualizing all of the areas of a Homeless Entrepreneur’s life. We will provide insight on the individual’s perception regarding his or her life at the very beginning of the HELP program, while he or she progress as well as define the person’s goal.
Zakari's stakeholder community
City Halls
Neighbor communities
Restaurants and hotel entities
Education and CSR departments
Nigerians and Nigerian institutions
Individuals and institutions that support poverty reduction and ending homelessness
Retired citizens
Professors and universities
Sponsors
Not only will you ensure that Zakari has all of the resources he needs through our HELP program, you will also help strengthen his professional network to empower him.
Support Zakari by being a sponsor.
Create social impact while playing an active role!
Be a lead sponsor by contributing $160 per month or a co-sponsors by contributing $100 per month
Private Donors
Monthly donations will provide greater stability for Zakari.
Volunteers
Volunteering not only helps Zakari, it will also help you grow professionally and personally with him!
We are always looking for proactive volunteers who want to take part in the change they would like to see in the world.
Some of the Volunteers who Help
