What is Youth Entrepreneurship?
If you ask 14-year-old Henry who he is, he will tell you that he is the VP of marketing for a pepper business that he and his friends started in Northern Ghana. This is their second year in business, and they have expanded from selling stationary and school supplies their first year to investing their profits in a more profitable business, buying peppers during the harvest season and selling them in the off-season for a 40% markup. Through a partnership with Teach A Man To Fish, New City Networks is training hundreds of youth in 7 countries around the world to become entrepreneurs.
Why is it important?
When young people receive the cash they themselves have earned through creative entrepreneurship, they begin to believe change is possible, and they begin to see their own value as potential providers for their families. Instead of seeing their country as “poor” or “developing” or “corrupt,” they see it as a land of opportunity. In the New City Networks approach to development, this new way of seeing is the first step to individual, community and eventually economic transformation.
We have partnered with
Teach A Man To Fish
New City Networks is proud to partner with Teach A Man To Fish (TAMF). For 18 years their programs have empowered over 500,000 young people globally with the skills they need to succeed in entrepreneurship, school, work, and life. Their work is based on the core conviction that entrepreneurship education is the key to tackling global poverty and youth unemployment.
How it works
Teach A Man to Fish mentors each New City Networks partner for 1-2 years in youth business development.
We Connect organizations to TAMF
Over the course of a year, TAMF walks each organization through 14 lessons that help a business go from inception to completion of one business cycle.
Adults learn from subject matter experts
The business coach meets in regular Zoom meetings with the in-country adult staff team to teach the 14 business concepts and problem-solve the growth of the young business.
A self-sustaining business is launched by teens
The adults then teach the youth the concepts they use while launching the business. Sometimes, they fail, but they fail fast and small so that by year 2, the business is profitable. Not only do the kids receive money and skills, but the NCN partner also has a new income stream.
See the work in action via these ministries we work with
SaxophoneHUB
Media Business
Nigeria
The King's Village
Pepper Business
Ghana
R.I.S.E. Upliftment Project
Souvenir Business
Drakensberg
Hearts for Honduras
Piñata Business
Honduras
Real Hope
Bed Building Business
Kenya
