The purpose of this online journal is to share with you the thoughts and daily events of six students and one dedicated professor on their pilot project, "Social Entrepreneurship 101: Africa" in Nairobi, Kenya.
Social Entrepreneurship 101: Africa is a youth-directed project developed by UBC students in collaboration with the Sauder School of Business and Kibera Community Youth Programme (KCYP). Our mission is to develop a sustainable program that will involve university students working with African youth to develop, promote and expand the socially motivated, entrepreneurial endeavors of African youth.
We held a business proposal competition with KCYP and we recieved more than twenty proposals from the Kiberan youth. From these proposals, we selected four ‘winners’.
The project has three main components:
·A series of workshops to inform interested Kibera youth about the essential components of a business plan, covering a wide variety of topics from operational organization to marketing tactics and financial strategies.
·Break-out sessions with the 4 selected proposals to share ideas and information, design and complete business plans and organize step-by-step development strategies.
·Presentations by guest speakers from the Kenyan business community to provide a local prospective, impart inspiration and share essential knowledge and experience
Posted by Brittany Baum
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