In countries with high percentage youth and high unemployment rates, school graduates often find themselves at the back of a long queue of job seekers. Social enterprise ‘Education!’ wants to change this. It developed a purely practical-learning based curriculum to help students start small business in their communities, to become entrepreneurs and innovators rather than jobless. The results are promising; graduates from the program earn double the income of their peers.
Uganda schools educate pupils in entrepreneurship
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