Le-Jumbo Mentorship Program 4.0 (Week 2: Virtual Session)

PRESS RELEASE
Le Jumbo Mentorship Program 4.0 – Week Two Wrap
19th October 2025

Le Jumbo Mentorship Program is pleased to announce a very successful Week Two session held virtually on Sunday, 19th October 2025. The session featured two outstanding international mentors, Mr. Eric Schaffner, CEO & Founder of ZeLoop, and Prof. Irénée Dondjio, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration & Emerging Technologies at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and PhD researcher in Blockchain and Sustainability at Nicosia University, who led lively, practical and highly interactive discussions on sustainability, the ZeLoop app & challenge, and the disruptive power of blockchain for business and for Africa.


Program highlights
10:00 – 11:00 – Mr. Eric Schaffner (ZeLoop)
Mr. Schaffner opened the day with an engaging presentation on the ZeLoop Impact-to-Earn platform, explaining how the app combines pro-environmental behaviour with blockchain token rewards (Eco Reward tokens – ERW). He showed practical user journeys (bottle collection, plogging), the app’s wallet & marketplace features, and how the ZeLoop reward engine leverages the BSC blockchain to track and reward verified eco-actions. Mr. Schaffner also outlined ZeLoop’s real-world impact and scale (global user and deposit-point footprint, plastic recovery figures), the ZeLoop challenge and white-label/API opportunities for partners and businesses to adopt similar incentive systems.

11:00 – 12:00 – Prof. Irénée Dondjio (Blockchain & Sustainability)
Prof. Dondjio delivered a clear, practical introduction to blockchain technology and its disruptive potential across industries. Key themes included: what a blockchain is (shared immutable ledger, decentralization), smart contracts and real-world examples, NFTs, and the way blockchain can improve transparency and trust across fragmented value chains (food/cocoa, retail traceability examples such as QR tracking and enterprise pilots). He also explored blockchain’s role in financial inclusion in less developed countries, the challenges and infrastructure considerations for universal rollout (digital ID, last-mile issues), and suggested ways Africa can harness blockchain to add value, reduce intermediaries and strengthen traceability.

12:00 – 13:00 – Interactive segment, mentee recognition & debate
The final hour was lively and inspirational: our Best Mentee of Week One, Mr. Babucarr Sey, received a surprise gift from Le Jumbo Mentorship Program and addressed fellow mentees with a motivational speech encouraging consistency, learning and excellence. This was followed by a spirited debate among mentees on “The Importance of Data and Research in Business”, expertly facilitated by Mr. Hydara (Chairman) and Mr. Dem (Executive Coordinator). The session closed with individual portrait photo-shoots of mentees for their profile pages and upcoming Le Jumbo social features.

Key takeaways

Rewards + Blockchain = Behavioural Change – Tokenizing eco-actions (ERW) makes sustainability measurable, tradable and motivating for individuals and businesses.
Traceability builds trust – Blockchain can reduce opacity in supply chains (food, cocoa, retail), letting consumers, producers and firms verify provenance and reduce fraud.
Practical impact matters – ZeLoop’s use cases (plogging, bottle collection, recovery centers, plastic offset NFTs) show how tech + local operations produce measurable environmental outcomes and livelihoods.
Inclusion & infrastructure are critical – Blockchain offers financial inclusion opportunities, but requires digital identity, last-mile solutions and policy support to scale in many African contexts.
Quotes from mentor presentations.

On incentives and participation: Mr. Eric Schaffner demonstrated how gamification + token rewards can onboard communities to eco-responsible behaviour while creating real economic value and recovery operations.
On disruption and opportunity: Prof. Irénée Dondjio emphasized that blockchain is not just a fintech curiosity, it is a protocol that can reshape value chains, strengthen trust and open new routes to inclusion if implemented with local realities in mind.