Youth Business Trust

Youth Business Trust Belize is pleased to welcome to the YBTB team, Ms. Olivia Wilmot, a Master of Public Service Candidate at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

Youth Business Trust Belize is pleased to welcome to the YBTB team, Ms. Olivia Wilmot, a Master of Public Service Candidate at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

Ms. Wilmot joins the YBTB team as a volunteer whose main goal is to determine how YBTB can better serve existing members and effectively recruit new members and mentors. She is a native of Memphis, Tenn., and earned a degree in Spanish with a minor in English from the University of Memphis. During college, she spent a summer teaching English as a foreign language at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen, Czech Republic. Recently, she completed a stint as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Memphis working on projects including Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service; Make a Difference Day and Hands on Memphis with a special focus on engaging at-risk youth.

During her first year at the Clinton School Ms. Wilmot worked with the small business development program Arkansas DeltaMade, a program that promotes the products and services unique to the Arkansas Delta region. Her work in small business development is what triggered her interest in working with YBTB on her international public service project. She will be with YBTB until the end of July 2009.

Youth Business Trust Belize is a program offering young persons between the ages of 18-35 assistance in starting their own businesses. The program offers loan financing, training and the ever important component, mentoring, which guides the young persons business on the road to success. 

Those who have pledged their commitment to the program, which is being funded by the Inter American Development Bank, have made a serious investment in the future of Belize. The program, which follows the Youth Business International model started by Prince Charles of Wales, boasts of a vast network of about thirty seven countries worldwide.

Welcome to YBTB, Olivia!!