Green Enterprise for Rural Youth in Tanzania

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Green Enterprise for Rural Youth in Tanzania

Summary

Provide entrepreneurial training and opportunities for youth in the Lushoto District, enabling them to plan for, develop, and manage sustainable, environmentally-oriented businesses. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Lushoto is a rural, agricultural district with a 3:1 ratio of women to men, as men continue to leave due to a shortage of formal employment and over-populated land. Women and youth remain with limited economic opportunities and tumultuous family and community environments. By providing local youth with entrepreneurial training emphasizing sustainability, and with the tools to continue learning, the youth will be able to build new businesses and reverse these dangerous trends for their community.

Activities

We provide eco-enterprise training with experiential-learning curricula that can be reused by youth leaders for ongoing, sustainable eco-business development. Youth learn business and leadership skills and how to develop sustainable business plans.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $851
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,149
Total Funding Goal: $6,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will provide youth with the skills to develop their own sustainable businesses, increasing incomes and job opportunities in Lushoto, and helping to build an environmentally sustainable local economy.

Project Message

We did not know about the importance of the environment before and now we ARE environmental entrepreneurs!
- Godliving Munuo, EVI Trainee, Founder of Ngarenaro Youth Group

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Pei Cheng
Staff member
1519 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 301
Washington, DC 20036
United States
+1 202 667 0802
Email:

Project Sponsor

EcoVentures International

Organization

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EcoVentures International
1519 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 301
Washington, DC 20036
United States
+1 202 667 0802
http://www.eco-ventures.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).

For more information about Tanzania, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 8, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 11, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

New Green Enterprise Opportunities in Tanzania

By Pei Cheng - Program Assistant, June 08, 2009 11:48 PM

EVI has partnered with a sustainable technology organization to test small-scale solar energy technologies as potential green enterprise opportunities for youth in Tanzania. The youth would be able to rent individual solar panels to others in the community to charge cell phones and power lamps. Because electricity is unreliable there, while solar energy is abundant, solar energy could potentially be more effective in meeting energy needs. With this technology, solar energy can be stored from sun exposure from the day time for night time use. Solar entrepreneurs would be able to generate income from rentals and create jobs in supporting the development of solar energy in the area. This could include entrepreneurs in solar panel repair, or part recycling. EVI is currently investigating the feasibility and appropriateness of this technology in the community by initiating mini solar panel demonstrations and trainings. Local partners will also be collaborating with us on market assessments to identify even more potential green enterprise opportunities as well as potential challenges.

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