The entrepreneurship portion teaches the basics of business: creating business plans, budgeting, saving, marketing skills, etc. At the end of the business training, the girls receive a start up capital of roughly $3 to start a small business.
The aim is to teach the girls that;
- To save and if they reinvest wisely, they grow their incomes
- Test the skills they learned
- Start learning about money and saving at a young age
- They don’t have to stay in unhealthy/unsafe relationships due to financial dependence
The program is currently running in one school with 16 girls enrolled. We hope to expand it to other schools in the future.