Hi,

On the 26th June, the youth had a tour to one of the successful entrepreneurs of briquette making in Kampala called Kampala Jellitone Supplies in which youth learnt various techniques of making quality briquettes, marketing skills, energy saving stoves, possible markets etc. This is one of the activities aimed at developing the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the youth. There will be another training of youth starting on 7th July in Generate Your Business Ideas (GYBI)and Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB)packages. You can also visit our blog (i.e. www.wakitakayouths.wordpress.com) for more updates.

The youth have also written and submitted another proposal to scale up the tailoring project. At present 4 young women who were trained by the group are running their own tailoring enterprises while others are being employed before they can gather some money to buy their own tailoring machines.

Kind Regards,
Emmanuel

Dear neighbors,

Having troubles to load up pictures to Nabuur - it's just too slow for my connection in Benin - please go to the WYDG Blog to see the pictures there.
I am sorry for this inconvenience, but the blog is a bit faster.

Have a good week,
Maria

Hi Members,

A four days training of 19 youth in entrepreneurship skills ended on 13th July, 2011. The youth were guided on how to find a good business idea, how to generate a business idea, personal assessment about a business idea, investigating a business environment, how to conduct a SWOT analysis and briquette making among others.

The outcomes of the training included: identification of good business ideas, youth acquired knowledge and skills to analyze and select the most feasible business idea, business plan making. In addition the Generate and Improve Your Business Ideas (GYBI) program was promoted.

On 21st July, 2011, the youth intend to conduct an awareness campaign in which the youth will also exhibit to the community their products and services

Emmanuel

great work!

Thanks Ecle for your compliments.

Emmanuel

Dear Neighbors,

On Sunday 31st July, 2011, WYDG conducted an open air field day and awareness campaign regarding the cook clean and save the environment project in which the group is equipping the youth with various business skills, briquette production, sensitization about savings and credit facilities among others.

The function which started at 2:00pm with different local authorities and members of the community in attendance was successful. Amongst the activities of the day included; demonstrating briquette making, demonstrating the use of briquettes and highlighting about other success projects of WYDG.

WYDG also invited "Women First" a Women NGO in Jinja which empowers women in various projects including bead making, making of energy stoves, making of solar cookers among others. The group was also able to exhibit their products to the public.

More info including photos of the event will be posted on our blog shortly

Kind Regards,
Emmanuel

I can't wait to see the solar cookers - and wonder if they are like the ones I have looked at. Congrats on the Day of Info sharing - great idea!

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Ginger

WYDG has been invited to exhibit their products at the International Youth Day Celebrations to be held in Northern Uganda on the 11th August 2011.

Emmanuel

That's fantastic news Emmanuel! Congratulations! We will look forward to your updates and hopefully some pictures of the event!

Jennifer

Hi All,

It's quite a while without updates from the group. WYDG is still operating and today the 3rd November, 2011, WYDG will be taking part in a TV interview where the youth will be sharing their experiences with the public. This is in collaboration with the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility/ILO who are the funders of the briquette making project.

The group is also at the verge of implementing the second phase of the briquette making project. The group is yet to receive additional funds for the second phase following successful monitoring and evaluation of the project. Some youth have also taken on the project as an income generating activity.

Kind Regards,
Emmanuel

WYDG has commenced the implementation of the briquette project following successful monitoring and evaluation of the project by the funders.
You can also visit our blog for detailed info: www.wakitakayouths.wordpress.com
Kind Regards,
Emmanuel

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They should be established everywhere and self-sustaining. Education is the solution to poverty.

A CD holds 650 MB. The Bible is 1.4 MB. Therefore, a CD holds 464 copies of the Bible. A DVD holds 3,000 copies of the Bible. A dual layer DVD holds 6,000 Bibles. The DVDs could be loaded with educational materials: books, videos, etc. I have a DVD loaded with farming info and with a printed label for US0.50. Cost US$3.50 to mail anywhere in the world. Just imagine what would happen if every school in the bush of Africa, the jungles of Latin America and the mountains of Asia had a DVD library to use for teaching and training. All computers, internally, operate on 12 v. Therefore, wire 12 v from a battery directly into the computer [email for instructions] and use a solar battery charger. This opens up a whole new way to teach. Thousands of DVDs are available and many are free.

If the internet is available, the cost is prohibitive many times. Use HTTrack website copier [free] to download websites into computers and on to DVDs.

Class schedule: Classes can meet mornings, afternoons, evenings and/or weekends.

teachamantofish.org.uk “Our organization helps kids from poor families across Africa, Asia and South America to get quality education. We work with schools to create new sources of income. Students get ‘hands-on’ involve-ment and learn practical skills and entrepreneurship”. teachamantofish.org.uk/school-box

 The Learning Farm, Indonesia. thelearningfarm.com
 S. F. Agriculture School, fundacionparaguaya.org.py/index.php?id=lo-que-hacemos. [English]
 eldeber.com.bo/extra/2008-01-27/nota.php?id=080128000444 Colonia Pirai high school, Bolivia
 http://schoolatblairgrocery.blogspot.com [USA]
 auronepal.net [India]
 http://arapalgoatfarm.shutterfly.com [self-supporting students]
 Appropriate Technology [minifarms]
 Organic, no-till gardening/farming using only a machete/maize cutter [minifarms]
 peas.org.uk/
 Cityfarmer.org
 Khanacademy.org [free courses online. Could be downloaded on to DVDs and used anywhere]
 educationrevolution.org
 School Project - financially self-sustaining. Ron Stiff ron@montebelloacademy.org
 cd3wd.com [available on 5 DVDs. Free to developing countries] Do-it-yourself plans for doing just about anything.

Micro-credit - farmsinternational.org/farms-sept11nl-what_is_wrong_with_microcredit.pdf [how to do it]

Vocational/ High Schools: They should be established and then self-sustaining. Students work but take longer to graduate.

Suggestions for training and profit-making:

1. gardening, mini-farming [no tractor or implements]
2. farm value-added products
3. livestock mini-farming
4. tree nursery
5. vegetable starter nursery
6. seed production
7. hoop houses
8. farmer’s market
9. retail store/market stall [school, farm, arts/crafts products]
10. pedal/hand thresher
11. nut sheller
12. pedal/hand pump
13. bucket drip irrigation kits
14. DVD/book selling
15. burn/sell dvds
16. auto mechanics
17. welding shop
18. carpenter shop
19. electrician
20. village movie theater -computer
21. computer time rental
22. cell phone time rental
23. composting business
24. vermicomposting
25. composting toilets
26. sewing
27. clothes washer/hand
28. pot-in-pot food coolers
29. papyrus sanitary napkins
30. soil/cement brick
31. soil/cement roof tiles
32. fish production
33. arts and crafts
34. recycling business
35. darfurstoves.org
36. water bottle roof lights
37. LED solar lights
38. solar water heaters
39. solar food driers
40. solar cookers
41. solar heating
42. solar water purifier
43. solar lighting [schools, homes]
44. solar electric panels
45. sandals from old tires
46. pedal/hand grinder
47. maize tortilla making
48. bicycle mechanic
49. bicycle trailer making
50. bicycle ambulance
51. bicycle delivery service
52. B sales trailer: food, drinks, farm products, etc.
53. pedicab service
54. trike cargo service
55. BT cargo service
56. BT mobile shop
57. BT delivery service
58. BT taxis [2- 4 adults; 3-6 kids]

Thanks Ken.

Thanks alot for trying to eke a living. as a group you sit down and suggest the products or services that you can sell to make money. consider also the market trends of the product or service in your vicinity. after identifying the them assess whether you produce or render them. i personally i can train you in soap making if you can see that there is market for soap in yuor area and you can have the raw materials.
the problem with my online discussion i have limited access to the internet. find me 0782002512.

Hi All,

A representative of Legacy Foundation managed to pay a visit to WYDG and evaluated the briquette making project. Two organizations were selected for the evaluation; WYDG from Uganda and another in Tanzania. This will help WYDG to create a strong network with other organizations that promote use of eco-friendly briquettes all over the world and most importantly learn from one another.

Legacy foundation is an organization that promotes briquette making businesses all over the world.

Kind Regards,
Emmanuel