About Us

Afrivan Mission

African Virtual Assistant Network™ (Afrivan) mission is to place top priority in business networking, education, business empowerment for Virtual Assistants and create awareness of the needs for small business to large corporation to outsource and delegate business services more efficiency to a broad-base network of Virtual Business Assistants who are multi-skilled and  from a diverse workforce and ready to offer their business services and products to clients.

Afrivan mission is to function at local level, national level and international level to develop strategy alliance and innovative business solutions for established or emerging Virtual Assistants.

Afrivan Goals

• To provide 21st century professional education and productivity technology for Virtual Assistants in their business.
• Engage for the purpose of support and continuous professional growth.
• To draw values from the diverse cultures and industries represented among members.
• To provide educational  and business support both online and offline.
• To create alliances with national and international business sectors, both public and private.
• Be a source of business information to already established and emerging Virtual Assistants.
• To provide Virtual Assistants services to under-served and under-resourced company.
• We aim for multi-skilled and diverse workforce.

Gone are the days of secretary with  old typewriters and lots of painstaking manual office procedures.With the launch of the internet and advance unifying technologies and business tools, the job of a secretary has create a more advance and sophisticated industry known as Virtual Assistant(VAs).

Let me make it clear that Virtual Assistant has it root from the job of a secretary, but today’s technology has made the profession of a Virtual Assistant more creative, technical and advance in nature. Administrative services is just the iceberg of what a Virtual Assistant can do, and the sky is no longer the limit to what VA industry is evolving to. Professional sectors such as Finance, Insurance, Medical, Publishing, Legal, Computer and Engineering are also carving out Virtual Assistant as part of their services they now offer their clients.

Virtual Assistant industry has been around since the 1980 in United States, Canada and other parts of the world, but rapidly gaining more attention and forcing small to large businesses to rethink, restructure, re-delegate how business operations are manage.The Virtual Assistant industry is still a new concept in Africa and some part of the world, and people are really paying attention to the industry and technology availability.The newness of the Virtual Assistant gave birth to African Virtual Assistants Network to educate, empower and inspires lot of African worldwide about global business opportunities in Virtual Assistant as a profession.

African Virtual Assistants Network™ was established in 2008, by Topsie Egbetokun right from her virtual assistant business Business Without Boundaries. Business Without Boundaries started in 2006 with the sole purpose of providing business support services and solutions to small business and large corporation.While managing Business Without Boundaries and networking she discovered that, there were few Africans in Virtual Assistants industry and small business in Africa are yet to understand the benefit of partnering with a Virtual Assistant to provide support and services for their business.She also discovered that most companies outsource some of their business processes to third parties and lastly, the internet and unifying technology has the made the world a small place to conduct business virtually anywhere.

With this three facts,  she decided to start  Afrivan to educate, empower and let people see the global business opportunities in this profession and beyond. African Virtual Assistants Network™ is the first organization establish for all African VAs locally and globally for business empowerment and enrichment.

Topsie is dedicated to Afrivan mission and goals. She works very hard to manage every detailed aspect of Afrivan establishment and their is not enough words to describe her unrelentingly contributions to Afrivan and what she is set to accomplish for other VAs and African business worldwide.

African Virtual Assistant Network Timeline

2006: Topsie Egbetokun started Business Without Boundaries to provide business support services to small business owner globally.

2008: Establish Afrivan Virtual Assistants Network™ (Afrivan) for African around the world and in Africa who are in the virtual business.

2009: Afrivan membership website was officially launch to the public and businesses.

Afrivan goal is to function at local level, national level and international level to develop strategy business alliance with small business and while creating innovative business solutions for established or emerging Virtual Assistant.