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.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

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.

How will this project solve this problem?

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.

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

Additional Documentation

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

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