Newsflash

Even though the schools are away on their 10 day holiday, the work continues! The project aims to ensure these previously disadvantaged children get the maximum benefit from the intervention. Mr Ashley Cupido of Sentinel Primary made the suggestion that we should try and make the business experience as real as possible. His idea was to provide a trading facility in the Hout Bay harbour for the kids to run their businesses. We are trying to meet the Harbour Master if he has any suitable premises available.

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Ka-Ching! Traders - Entrepreneurship At Shools PDF Print E-mail

Ka-Ching! Traders is a unique opportunity for children to develop entrepreneurial skills at school. Children will learn to interact and learn from working with a group of pupils developing exciting real-life businesses.

As learners develop by completing the Ka-Ching! Traders levels, these young entrepreneurs from around the world will interact with one another. In effect each pupil becomes a member of an international group of young entrepreneurs.

The course introduces pupils to the benefits of self-employment and encourages them to look around their immediate communities to identify needs that exist, with the object of satisfying those needs.

There is a growing world wide entrepreneurial trend towards self-employment, which can provide not only wealth but a quality lifestyle as well. The evidence shows that entrepreneurial training needs to start from a Primary School going age.

Ka-Ching! Traders is run at schools with the direct input, training and ongoing support from the Ka-Ching! Foundation.

All levels involve the identification of a need; the setting up of companies with directors and their portfolios; the development of an advertising and marketing plan; the raising of capital; the running of formal meetings and the recording of minutes and financial transactions.

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Ka-Ching! Community Intervention Initiative PDF Print E-mail

The Ka-Ching! Community Intervention Initiative for Hout Bay is a project that has identified a practical approach for children and their parents to develop the mindset of an entrepreneur, financial management and business skills, that will help them learn to become self-reliant.

It is a multi-faceted project that will help address the educational and unemployment challenges facing this area.

The intervention’s goal is to ensure the chosen group becomes self-reliant. The project is sustainable, measurable and the findings will be duplicable to other communities around South Africa.

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Presented by: Gregory Bunyard
19 September 2007