Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009
Support Africa Now in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009
Africa Now is an international development organisation specialising in enterprising solutions in poverty stricken Africa. Africa Now believes everyone should enjoy the opportunity to benefit from enterprise, ethical trade and fair wages for their labour, and so encourages people to be active participants in trading their way out of poverty. Africa Now offers a ‘hand-up’ rather then just a ‘hand-out’, working with peoples skills, capacities and determination to build a better future for themselves and their children.
Global Entrepreneurship week puts the spotlight on enterprise, opening up new opportunities for people across the country and the world. It encourages people to be entrepreneurial, supporting them realise their ambitions while providing them with the ability to respond to change, take risks, to innovate and to generate and implement new ideas and new ways of doing things.
This is similar to the ethos that Africa Now takes in its work, which is why we feel so passionate about Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Africa Now’s £1 Challenge
Why not take part in Africa Now’s social enterprise challenge as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, and make a difference to the lives of rural entrepreneurs in Africa in the process!
Creating an enterprise in a society so rich in financial resources is easy, which is why we’d like to introduce you to our £1 Challenge. Students are tasked to develop an enterprise with just £1. The only other resources they have are their imagination and entrepreneurial skills to make their enterprise a success. These limited resources mirror the situation for many small businesses across Africa. Any profit made through Africa Now's £1 Challenge will be donated to our programmes, giving more opportunities to struggling entrepreneurs and their families in Africa.
This activity will promote initiative and team work, and can teach students about the issues surrounding development, poverty reduction, social enterprises and sustainability. The £1 Challenge can be run in one full day, for example Social Enterprise Day on Thursday 19th November, or done in lessons throughout the week.
Please visit the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009 website.
Resources
Africa Now will support your school as much as we can through the £1 Challenge. Below are a range of resources which you may find useful.
- Student's Brief - Secondary School
- Teacher's Brief
- Case Studies
- Africa Now DVD (approx. 4 minutes)
- Certificates
- Posters
- Leaflets and Newsletters
- Enterprise Ideas and Worksheet
To register your interest, or for any further information or resources please contact Laura on 01865 403265 or lmanifold@africanow.org
Enterprise Award 2010
Africa Now would like to celebrate the entrepreneurial skills of students across the country by inviting them to enter their enterprise in to Africa Now’s national competition. Africa Now is looking for the winner of the ‘Enterprise Award 2010’. If you think your enterprise is worthy of the title fill in the application form below and send to Laura on lmanifold@africanow.org
Download an application form for ‘Africa Now's Enterprise Award 2010’
Click here to see last years winners!
