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• Pan-African
Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2009
• Jorge's
Story: Forbes Interview for Remarkable Student
• It's
a Jungle Out There: Creating Sustainable Businesses In The
Amazon
• News in Brief
• Nicaragua:
Deck-Camping & Coffee Tours Ready for Business!
• Be
a Trade Hero!
• Teach
A Man To Fish makes it to the next billion
• Education
That Pays For Itself 2009: Make Us A Proposal We Can't Refuse!
Welcome to the October edition of the
Teach A Man To Fish quarterly e-bulletin!
From competitions and conferences, to entrepreneurship in
the jungle - welcome to another edition of the Teach A Man
To Fish quarterly newsletter!
Pan-African
Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2009
Competition launched offering top
prize of $10,000 for entrepreneurial education initiatives
in Africa.
For Africa to be able to be able to rise
to the challenges of tomorrow, more and better education will
be a key requirement - and not more of the same.This will
require new and entrepreneurial models which can be replicated
and taken to scale.
To support the best organizations developing such models
Educating Africa and Teach A Man To Fish are proud to announce
the EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship
in Education 2009.
The competition is open to all organizations based in Africa
working in education, both formal and non-formal education.
As well as a first prize of $10,000 and two runners-up prizes
of $5,000, there are 50 awards of $1,000 available for the
best entry from every country on the continent!
The top three award-winners will be sponsored a trip to South
Africa for the awards presentation and peer learning visits
to key Educating Africa and Teach A Man To Fish partners.
For more information and to enter, visit
www.teachamantofish.org.uk/competition.
Help us spread news of these awards and
download
the competition flyer.
Jorge's
Story: Forbes Interview for Remarkable Student
 If
you've seen the Teach
A Man To Fish video (and you should!), you'll have
seen one of our partner's students Jorge
Guerrero, just one of a family of 19 children,
talking about what he's learning at school.
Several years on now, and the remarkable
way in which Jorge has taken advantage of that education to
transform his life is incredible - in fact it's so impressive
that leading business magazine Forbes
thought it merited a one-on-one interview.
Stories like this are why we set up Teach
A Man To Fish - to give the millions of Jorge's
out there a chance to unleash their potential. We think you'll
agree it makes a great read, click
here for the full story.
It's
a Jungle Out There: Creating Sustainable Businesses In The
Amazon
 One
of the great tragedies of the 20th Century has been the widespread
destructive exploitation of the world's rainforests. Yet the
people who really profited from this were rarely the local
people.
To allow the next generation to move out
of poverty while making sustainable use of the resources the
forests provide is a challenge for the 21st Century, and one
that the Yachana
Foundation has made great strides on.
At their technical high school they provide
young people from four Amazon provinces with the skills to
be entrepreneurs and leaders in their communities. They
believe that involving students in practical methods of managing
micro-enterprises is one of the best ways to ensure the long
term survival of the rainforest.
The school is working toward the goal of
being largely self-sufficient through its own microenterprises,
and already covers around 20% of its
costs in this way.
A great example of how this works is their low-cost
water filtration system enterprise which benefits
students, the school and the community all at the same time.
By managing the process of producing and selling these water
systems students learn valuable skills in management, teamwork,
finance and sales.
The proceeds provide the high school income to cover its
costs, and the local community gets an affordable way to produce
clean water, leading to improved health.
When you add a few of these win-win-win solutions together
in the same spot you quickly find that two plus two equals
a lot more than four - now that's something they never taught
you at school!
This December Yachana will host Education That Pays For Itself
2009, the annual international Teach A Man To Fish conference,
for more information on the event, click here
News
in Brief
Nicaragua:
Deck-Camping & Coffee Tours Ready for Business!
 Situated on a coffee estate within a protected
cloud-forest reserve in the hills of northern Nicaragua, Teach
A Man To Fish partner in La
Bastilla has just opened the first of its tourist facilities
- private deck-camping accommodation with idyllic views across
the plantation.
Coffee tours & tastings guide visitors
through the art of creating the perfect cup of coffee, while
wildlife lovers can follow forest trails tospot some of the
spectacular birds and animals only found in this region.
With prices starting at $35 per night for two people, it's
a great value way to unwind - and of course all this relaxation
even helps to provide local kids an education. Perfect!
To book your visit now, contact Yelba Valenzuela
at LaBastillaEcolodge@teachamantofish.org.uk.
Be
a 'Trade Hero'!
Teach A Man To
Fish is part of the Trade
Justice Movement, a campaign coalition of organizations
who want to see trade work in the interests of poor people.
Join with campaigners around the world
to change the way Europe trades with developing countries
- send an email via the campaign website
to Baroness Ashton, the EU Trade Commissioner,
and ask her to turn European trade policy around!
Click
here to have make your voice count!
Teach
A Man To Fish makes it to the next billion
Selected from over 350 applicants to take part in Santa Clara
University's prestigious Global Social Benefit Incubator program,
Teach A Man To Fish had the extra joy of being profiled on
the Next Billion - a thought-leading website in promoting
enterprise solutions for development.
Watch their four-minute video featuring
Teach A Man To Fish here.
Education
That Pays For Itself 2009: Make Us A Proposal We Can't Refuse!
Deadline for proposals
to present at Education That Pays For Itself 2009 now extended
till 22nd October.
Everybody talks about the importance of education for fighting
poverty, but very few have concrete ideas on how to pay for
it, and how to make it meet the needs of the poorest.
If you've got
something to say about sustainable education, this is the
event to say it at!
With the deadline
for proposals now extended to 22nd October there's
an extra couple of weeks to send us a short summary of the
experiences you'd like to share.
For full information on the Call
for Proposals and presentation opportunities, click
here.
Education That Pays For Itself 2009, the
third international conference on Sustainable Education, will
take place from 8-10 December 2009
at the Yachana Lodge, Ecuador - bringing together
up to 100 participants including some of the world's leading
experts on Financially Sustainable Education.
This year's theme of "Income Generation for Education" recognizes
the double role of school businesses, not only source of program
funding, but even more importantly in providing a real-life
learning environment for skills and entrepreneurship education.
For more information on the conference,
click here.
Note. Limited capacity means places will
be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Make sure
you don't miss your place, register
now.
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Share & Tell
Share Your Story With Us
We're always interested in hearing about entrepreneurial schools in developing countries who've found creative ways to generate income to support their educational activities.
This is your newsletter - so if you know of any institutions following this approach with an interesting story to tell, send us an email and we'll try to include it in a future newsletter.
Share your story with us and who knows what new opportunities it might open up! Write to us here.
Tell The
World – Take a Moment to Help Us Go Global
Scandalously there are still people out there who are unaware of TeachAManToFish! Yet according
to mathematical geniuses, if you told just five people about
us, and they did the same thing, then within 14 steps the
whole world would have heard of us!
We've added a nice little feature
to our website that makes sending an email to a few friends
about us child's play. Someone's got to get the ball rolling,
why not you?
Go on, speak to the world – click
here!
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