Enterprise skills provide a future for young people in Africa.
We've created a cost-effective and fun toolkit to teach kids about business.
They learn about, and then experience being an entrepreneur for real!
You can't start your second business until you've started your first one, and we're giving thousands of young people the chance to start their first business, using the tried and tested lemonade stand.
They learn the link between planning, hard work and earning some money - essential skills for their futures.
They also learn running a business is rewarding and fun!
In Swaziland more than 50% of young people are unemployed. We want to empower young people with the knowledge they need to create their own jobs when they leave school.
Over 1000 kids have used the Citrus Saturday toolkit in 100 schools or youth clubs in Africa and Europe, this is what some of the kids in London tell us they got from it:
Our toolkit
Our toolkits have everything needed for youth workers, volunteers and teachers to run workshops on enterprise skills, set up the lemonade stand and teach kids a whole new set of skills.
There's guides and videos to explain how to teach the skills, and workbooks for the children to learn from and use to plan their businesses.
The equipment in the toolkits includes hats and aprons for food hygiene, a big wipe-clean tablecloth, balloons and stickers for their stall and other decoration to make everyone feel part of a professional drinks business. It's catering-grade quality and will last over 5 years.
Our campaign
We're raising £5000 to buy 10 Citrus Saturday toolkits, take them to Swaziland in Africa and train up a new team of volunteers and youth workers to use them.
The toolkits will educate 2000 kids over the next 5 years and provide them with the skills they need when they leave school.
If you'd like to sponsor two young people to take part in Citrus Saturday, you can do so for just £5!
If we raise more money, we'll buy more toolkits! The materials cost £250 for each set, each toolkit will educate 200 kids over 5 years, so that's £2500 for 10 toolkits.
The remaining £2500 pays for the costs of training and supporting the volunteers and staff in Swaziland to use the toolkits.
Timeline
- You donate
- We buy the equipment for the Citrus Saturday Toolkits
- We ship them to Swaziland
- One of us travels to Swaziland and trains a team of people to use the toolkits
- We run demonstration Citrus Saturday activities while we're there (see videos!)
- We return and the trained volunteers run more activities using the Toolkits
- 2000 young people learn new skills!
Who are we?
Citrus Saturday is an education programme developed by UCL (University College London) designed to teach entrepreneurship and enterprise skills to young people around the world. We have worked in nine countries across Europe and Africa.
In November 2013, we were funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat to partner with Junior Achievement Swaziland and run a pilot (with 2 toolkits and 10 kids) to introduce Citrus Saturday to Swazi primary schools. JA is the world’s largest organisation dedicated to youth entrepreneurship education. Junior Achievement Africa has a presence in 16 countries, and in each they strive to empower young people by teaching a range of enterprise skills and providing them with better employment prospects.
Our other partners included the University of Swaziland and Enactus Swaziland, whose volunteers received training from us to use the toolkits to run Citrus Saturday teaching workshops.
After we left the teams of volunteers, JA staff carried on using the toolkits and have worked with more and more kids since. We want to take 10 more toolkits to Swaziland and train lots more staff and volunteers who will teach thousands of kids over the coming years!
Why support us?
Research has proven the genuine effectiveness of experiential learning. At UCL our research and case studies have shown that participating in Citrus Saturday develops skills and attributes such as confidence, independence, creativity, self-reliance and purposeful action in young people. With the success of our 2013 pilot in Swaziland, working in Mbabane with 10 students from Baha'i Primary School, we know exactly how to implement a programme to directly benefit up to 2000 young people in a country struggling with mass poverty and unemployment. Support Citrus Saturday to give every young person the chance to shape their own futures!
Here's the video we made of the trip:
Importantly, every penny we receive from your donation pays for education materials, and the training and support to use them. All our admin and other costs are met by other funding already secured by UCL.
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