Six to seven billion young people will go through secondary school in Africa between today and the end of the century, and families all over the continent will invest huge resources to give those children an education. But education systems across Africa deliver a broken promise—spending years in schools that don’t teach the skills youth actually need does not lead to employment or the opportunity to make a decent living. For the families who have invested so much to put their children through school and improve their lives, this broken promise is tragic. For the countries that depend on today’s youth to solve poverty and drive development, it is a massive lost opportunity.
THE SOLUTION
School enterprise club is the flagship program of youth leadership development initiative designed to equip students with the skills to solve poverty for themselves and their communities. We deliver our practical, skills-based model of education by partnering with existing secondary schools. The program model is driven by the amazing people involved, the students, mentors, and teachers in these partner schools. School enterprise Mentors are carefully selected and intensively trained team members from the local community who have practical experience running their own businesses and community projects. The school enterprise Mentor delivers our training, mentorship, and student business support through weekly lessons to 20 schools. Scholars at each partner school over the course of a year and a half. School enterprise also selects one teacher and one administrator per school to join our Experience Association to build a community of practice and learning around skills-based education within each school. School enterprise Associate Teachers introduce global best practices in their own classrooms, and lead school-wide components of our program, such as Student Business Clubs, peer mentorship events, and community service days.
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