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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011
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GEW is an initiative to
inspire young people to embrace innovation,
imagination and creativity, to think big,
to turn their ideas into reality and to make
their presence felt on the globe.
Objectives
of the week
• To inspire young people to consider
entrepreneurship as a career
• To connect young people and organizations
across national boundaries
• To mentor active and inspiring entrepreneurs
around the world as they pursue their dreams
• To engage leaders and policy makers
in entrepreneurship and to demonstrate to
them that entrepreneurship is central to the
nations’ economic health and culture.
Junior
Achievement participated and got involved
in the week by profiling some of the JA entrepreneurs
who are also high school students. More than
13 participants were expected but most of
them where doing their end of year examinations. |
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| GEW
2011 Activities
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| GEW 2011 Highlights
in Images |
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| Some
of the students featured during the GEW
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| Andrew
Mupuya a young entrepreneur makes paper
bags for different companies
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Andrew
Mupuya is a 19 year old Makerere University
student. He manages his own company called
YELI- Youth Entreprenual Link Investments,
which makes quality paper bags, envelopes,
T-shirt printing and recently started
writing business proposals for clients.
The business is only two years old but
Mupuya says the annual turnover is 1,800,000.
He employs about 18 people especially
when he has big orders for paper bags.
His business is located in Kamwokya 3
off Mawanda road, where he pays monthly
rent of 100,000 shillings. Mupuya
says he started his business two years
ago after gaining experience from the
JA company program that was in their
school at that time. In the JA company
called Quapack where they were taught
how to make envelopes and paper bags
at school, he was a finance manager.
So after high school, he used some of
the dividends he got from the JA and
added on some more money and with a
capital of 30,000, he started his own
paper bag business.
Mupuya
says that one thing that makes his business
to stand out is his level of creativity,
and his proudest achievement is this
acquisition of business skill which
he utilizes to earn a living. Although
his major challenge is limited time,
he says he has learned to multi-task
like any other business man and he has
learned to start his day early in the
morning in order to accomplish his days’
routine. His vision is to contribute
to employing Ugandans and trading beyond
Ugandan boarders. |
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| Winnie
Lakor, 18, Peanut Butter popularly known
as Oddi |
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Winnie
Lakor, 18, a senior five student at
Kalinabbiri Secondary School has turned
her favourite thing into business. With
the inspiration from Junior Achievement
Uganda, Winnie does not have to worry
about anything. She makes the peanut
butter popularly known as oddi together
with her mother and sells it to her
neighbours, fellow students and teachers
and she also supplies some supermarkets
near her home in Kiwatule- a suburb
in Kampala.
Winnie
manages her small scale firm that produces
simsim and g- nut paste (peanut Butter).
Her firm is located in her mother’s
home.
She
says,” My mother taught me how
to grind simsim(sesame)and ground nuts
using a grinding stone for our home
consumption and sometimes for our relatives
and friends. Then I thought she was
overworking me, however after joining
Junior Achievement company program where
I was inspired to establish my own income
generating activity, with little start-up
capital I immediately decided on making
oddi because it is something I knew
very well.
I started my business with 15,000/-
($ 7), the peanut butter costs 3500/--($
2) a tin of 500 grams.”I can now
buy breakfast and lunch at school and
i can afford other necessities. My business
is now worth 50,000/- ($ 21). Winnie
urges other students to think about
income generation instead of waiting
for parents to provide for them, all
they need to learn is to save a little
money like coins on a daily basis.
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| Basirika
Mwajab- A young entrepreneur |
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Basirika
Amina Mwajabu, 18, a senior three
student at Kololo Secondary School
is one of the budding entrepreneurs
from Junior Achievement company Uganda.
Basirika manages her small scale firm
that produces paper bags, envelopes
and other packaging materials. Her
firm is located in her mother’s
home in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb.
This is what she says,”I got
the entrepreneur skills after joining
Junior Achievement company program
where I was taught how to establish
my own income generating activities
with little start-up capital.
I started my business with 20,000/-
($ 10), the paper bags cost between
500/- and 1000/-($ 1) depending on
the size.” She says the packaging
business is easy to operate because
there is no need for office space.
”I can now buy books and clothes
for myself. I have started employing
some students because the demand is
high. My business is now worth 150,000/-
($ 66)
She says her annual Turnover is about
480,000 shillings. One thing that
makes her business stand out is Good
management because she employs about
5 people during peak season.
She is proud that she is self-reliant.
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Opening was
by Minister of State for Trade & Industry
