Mfuko wa Elimu Mbozi

I am applying for the Elevate Prize funding for addressing the problems facing youth after completing O-level secondary education in Tanzania. By lacking entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills they will be a burden to the community as it is at present and ultimately engage in ilicit practices thus becoming untrustworthy. 

Youth in Tanzania when completing O-level secondary education, almost half of them do not continue with further education neither are provided with employment. Therefore they become vulnerable to HIV and AIDs, STI and Covid-19 due abject poverty. This kind of situation sends them to engage in malpractices behaviours and bringing trouble in the country.

Our aim is to address the Unemployment problem by imparting Entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills to all O-level students every year. These will be provided with Entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills on every Saturday from January to December every year. They will be tested through preparation of a bankable business plan and given startup loans for those with great business plan ideas.

Mfuko wa Elimu Mbozi will implement the project for two years. It has a competent team of five people.

Our goal is to make sure that every youth with basic education (O-level) has acquired entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills for establishing, growing and sustaining their Businesses immediately after completing O-level secondary education. Through this there will be economic growth of Tanzania.

I am seeing indecent life for youth completing O-level secondary education in Tanzania and worldwide due to lack of employment. The entire country is affected by this problem and the world at large.

Each year about 900,000 youth enter community life in prepare to cope with the new life when they have nothing to do for their day to day livelihoods.

The factors affecting them are lack of skill and startup capital.

Mfuko wa Elimu Mbozi will provide entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills to O-level finalists through informal training on every Saturday within the schools. They will be tested through a business plan and provide capital to outstanding business plans. The program once validated will spread to all Secondary schools for O-level finalists in Tanzania. These skills will make them establish businesses immediately they join the community.

Our innovation center on providing entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills to O-level finalists every year on informal mechanism for coping with life in villages. Giving them small loans for starting Budiness is another innovation aspect.

These innovation aspects will make us compete with our potential competitors. 

The program can be scaled up worldwide with improvements.

Step one: 

Develop curriculum for entrepreneurial, leadership and life-skills.

Step two:

Train trainers from teachers within the school.

Step three:

Prepare reporting systems.

Step four: 

Trainings.

Step five:

Testing and ranking.

Availing small loans.

Step six:

Evaluation