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Newsletter
August 2007
• 1st Pan-African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers launched
• Ecofinders Kenya: Eco-education with income
• Financially Self-Sufficient Schools Conference 2007: Time to register
• Fiesta de Fundos: Putting the Fun into fundraising
• News in Brief: From Sack races to Social Enterprise
Welcome to the August edition of the TeachAManToFish quarterly e-bulletin!
From our competition to find Africa’s most entrepreneurial educators, to a small Kenyan project with big ambitions, not to mention exciting news about our December conference, welcome to another edition of the TeachAManToFish quarterly newsletter!
1st Pan-African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers launched
 There are extraordinary educators all across Africa - remarkable individuals who ‘go the extra mile’ to find creative ways to bring education to their students.
They transform limited resources into astonishing results, drive change within their communities and develop educational initiatives which are copied nationwide.
It is time to recognize those teachers, and to acknowledge the huge contribution they make towards improving the lives of their fellow Africans.
TeachAManToFish, in partnership with Educating Africa is proud to announce the 1st Pan-African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers. This competition is open to teachers working in Africa at all levels of education, from primary through to tertiary, as well as in non-formal education.
As well as a first prize of $10,000 and two runners-up prizes of $5,000, the best entry from each country will receive an award of $1,000.
For full details, visit the competition website
 Ecofinders Kenya: Eco-education with income
A small scale project that’s thinking big – funding free school places through green business education
Although TeachAManToFish has shown that schools really can cover all their costs from profitable education-oriented school businesses, many schools find they have to start on a much smaller scale.
Small doesn’t have to mean un-ambitious though. Ecofinders Youth Movement have big plans for their project at the Luanda Dudi Secondary School in Western Kenya., which aims to benefit not only the school’s 370 students, but also the broader community.
 To achieve this Ecofinders are establishing a school garden for vegetable crops, a poultry keeping unit, and a tree nursery all within their $5,000 project. What’s more they’re creating a ‘green kiosk’ to sell the school’s products, so that their profits not only keep the project growing year after year, but can sponsor free school places for the poorest students.
These school businesses not only represent a great way to teach students about entrepreneurship and sustainable agriculture, but provide a backdrop for broader environmental education.
Eco-education that pays for itself – it’s something every school could make a small start on!
Read more about this project - visit Ecofinders’ quirky project blog here.
For more on TeachAManToFish supported projects around the world click here.
Financially Self-Sufficient Schools Conference 2007: Register fast!
Remarkable speakers, an extended call for proposals, and accommodation still included – time to register now!
The line up of inspirational keynote speakers for the first international Conference on Financially Self-Sufficient Schools goes from strength to strength.
 Renowned academic, author and now President of the Orient Global Education Fund, Professor James Tooley will share his insights into private education for the poor.
How do you build a personal project with six teenage dropouts, into a multi-center educational institute empowering hundreds of students every year? African visionary and founding director of the Songhai Center, Fr. Godfrey Nzamujo offers an illuminating inside view of one the world’s most remarkable educational institutions – and one financed primarily through its own enterprises.
Along with fellow speakers from Chile, Bolivia, Honduras, Indonesia, and South Africa it’s set to be a unique international gathering, and an inspiring forum for all those who share an interest in practical and enterprising approaches to financing quality education across the developing world.
Conference details : Stay updated : Register now!
Extended Call for Proposals
Don’t just be present, come and present! To give those interested an extra chance, our call for proposals has been extended till September 30th 2007. Individuals and organisations working in entrepreneurial education and related fields wishing to present their work at the conference should visit the conference website for full details.
Inspiring : Learning : Networking
Financially Self-Sufficient Schools 2007, 4th to 6th December, Paraguay
Fiesta de Fundos: Putting the Fun into fundraising
Throughout 2007, people across the globe will be adding a little spice to their lives by holding their own Fiestas (Latin American themed dinner parties) in support of TeachAManToFish's school-based projects across the developing world.
 There are dozens of schools in the TeachAManToFish network who have fantastic ideas about how to generate income for their school - overcoming inadequate funding from governments and short-term donors, and getting more of the poorest kids into school.
From farming catfish to making mango jam, all that’s often missing is just a little start-up assistance. Now we’re making it easier, and even more fun, for supporters to get these schools started.
The recipe’s simple:
- Pick 8-12 of your favourite people
- Pick a date they can all make and invite them over
- Pick a couple of mouthwatering latin american dishes
- Pick a suggested donation everyone can afford
- Host a Fiesta to remember!
So next time you want to have your friends round, don’t just throw a dinner party, throw a Fiesta and help rural schools in the developing world at the same time!
For more information on how to hold your own Fiesta, click here.
News in Brief:
The Next Great Transformation: Sustainable Enterprise
The Eden Project in Cornwall is one of the UK’s most successful social enterprises, having converted a disused quarry into an eco-educational tourist attraction.
Now there’s one more good reason to visit. ‘The Next Great Transformation: Sustainable Enterprise’, a conference taking place at Eden in late October, will look at how sustainable enterprise can be advanced internationally.
Alongside high profile speakers such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, TeachAManToFish will be there to talk about the need for sustainable schools teaching sustainable enterprise as part of this transformation. For more information visit the conference website.
 Innocent Fun
Education can be fun, that’s the message TeachAManToFish took to the Innocent Village Fete, a giant festival that took place in the heart of London earlier this month.
And as children raced each other in sacks featuring animals from our projects, we jumped on their parents to explain our uniquely sustainable approach to education.
By the end, over 1000 competitors had taken part in our events, and the sun didn’t stop shining all weekend – a rare event in the British summer. Surely it must have been fête!
TeachAManToFish in the news
With so much innovative educational work going on across the developing world, we don’t normally spend much time talking about ourselves. But if you’ve ever wondered about TeachAManToFish’s origins, have a read of this recent article from the London newspaper City AM.
PS: Despite what’s written we’re not just focused on Africa - but even journalists sometimes slip up!
Link of the Month
Online Volunteering is a great service set up by the UN Volunteers program to link volunteers around the world with international development non-profit organizations in need of their skills. Online Volunteers can help organizations stretch their on-site resources even further and to serve more clients.
For individuals interested in development issues, it makes it possible to contribute just a few hours a week and yet make a real difference to worthwhile work taking place across the developing world.
TeachAManToFish has had great experience with Online Volunteers from translators to web developers. For more information on Online Volunteering, click here
Share Your Story
With Us
This is your newsletter.
By now you’ve hopefully got a pretty good idea of the
type of programs we’re interested in – entrepreneurial
schools in developing countries finding creative ways to generate
income to support their educational activities.
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.
Don’t be shy about your good work.
Share your story with us - who knows what new opportunities
it might open up!
Write to: nik.kafka@teachamantofish.org.uk
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!
Help Us Find Potential
Partners
Although the internet has created unrivalled
possibilities for agricultural schools across developing countries
to share their experiences, finding these schools and putting
them in contact with each other is no simple task.
If you have any connections with agricultural
schools that might be interested in our network please make
sure you get in touch!
Email: nicola.radford@teachamantofish.org.uk
Links
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– visit www.teachamantofish.org.uk/joinournetwork.php
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