Displaying items by tag: Youth Employment/Entrepreneurship
Youth to Youth Fund Grantee Announcement Ceremony
Thursday, 20 January 2011 16:56The Youth to Youth Fund is a competitive grant and capacity building scheme for youth organizations for innovative project ideas that promote and develop entrepreneurship among peers.
Come join for a Grantee Ceremony where all 13 finalists will present their project proposals and showcase their solutions to youth entreneurship development in Tanzania. You will have the chance to cast your vote of the Public Choice Award! Awarded grants will range between $ 5,000 and $ 20,000.
For more information, see PDF file attached below.
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Events
KAB Stories: Nuruls Story, Indonesia
Wednesday, 19 January 2011 03:28This young teacher decided during one of her school holidays to open up an enterprise to be run in her free time. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, and after taking the KAB course in school she had enough skills to open up her own informal business. Read more here.
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Indonesia
KAB Stories: Phoutsakhone from Laos PDR
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:40Phoutsakhone is a young woman entrepreneur whom after working at a family establishment decided to open up her own food service enterprise. During her studies she took part in the KAB course offered by her school, and the skills she learnt here were essential to her turning a failing business into a success. Read more here.
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Laos
KAB Stories: Phouthasone from Laos PDR
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:36This bright faced young woman entrepreneur comes from an entrepreneurial family and had opened up her own fruit juice stand at a young age. It wasnt until after she took the KAB course that the business could turn into something much more profitable. Read her story here.
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Laos
KAB Stories: Phong from Laos PDR
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:32After identifying her market niche, Phong opened up her own tailoring shop. She studied the KAB course in school, and had gained all the tools necessary to open up her own business. After a sewing course, and raising enough capital, this young woman entrepreneur opened up her own business. Read her story, here.
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Laos
KAB Stories: Aboui Phoutt from Laos PDR
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:28Aboui Phoutt is a young entrepreneur from the capital of Laos. After his training from the KAB course, he managaned to open up his own service enterprise for electrical repairs. Read more about him here.
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Laos
KAB Stories: Ruslan from Kyrgyzstan's Story
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:26Ruslan, story begins after his grandfather health was failing and he moved in to take care of him. Having an extensive library on pig farming, and not many job opportunities, Ruslan decided to start up his own pig farm, and now runs a successful, abeit hard at times enterprise. Read more about Ruslan, here.
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Kyrgyzstan
KAB Stories: Khasan from Biskheh, Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:18Khasan, grew up in Biskheh Kyrgyzstan where his mother owned a successful women's clothing factory and his father was a tailor. After the KAB course Khasan took in his studies to become a Tailor, he found a market niche which hadn't been tapped: high end alterations. Read his story, here.
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Kyrgyzstan
KAB Stories: Ilia from Kyrgyzstan's Story
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 07:58Ilia, a farmer by trade, became a young entrepreneur when he opened up his own bull raising, sheep rearing and safflower cultivating business. He hires interns to work on his farm, when it is in season, and attributes part of his drive to succeed as an entrepreneur to his studies of the KAB course. Read his story, here.
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Kyrgyzstan
KAB Stories: Alexander from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 07:53This young entrepreneur from the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, has found opportunities where once there were none. He contributes this success to the KAB course he took in school. Read his story, attached.
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Kyrgyzstan

