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Program information:

Jonathan KifundaProgram Area ManagerTanzania

Office Mwanhuzi

PO-Northern Tanzania Meatu

Majengo Street, Mwanhunzi,P.O.Box 156,Meatu-Shinyanga,

Mwanhunzi, Tanzania

Office: +255 28 279 5063

Mobile: +255 78 625 4200

E-mail: jonathan.kifunda@icsafrica.org

Skype: jonathan.kifunda

Talitha HammerProject Officer Social Business

Smallepad 32

3811 MG Amersfoort

The Netherlands

Office: + 31 33 303 0250Mobile: + 316 48 48 64 38

E-mail: talitha.hammer@ics.nl

Skype: ics.talitha.kotterink

Investment information:

Frans WittermansPhone: +31 70 326 06 49

Mobile: +316 36 39 50 93

Skype: fwi2008

Sander Nieuwenhuizen

Manager Fundraising &Communications

Phone: + 31 33 303 02 50

Mobile: +316 48 188 339

Skype: sander.nieuwenhuizen2

Check our website for all our activities: www.ics.nl

TANZANIA (MEATU)

YOUNG

ENTREPRENEURS

PROGRAM (Y.E.P.)

SF Model for Youth EntrepreneurshipDevelopment

The SF Model for Youth EntrepreneurshipDevelopment consists of:

education, SF developed theEntrepreneurship Training Program;

the establishment of a local self-supporting

microcredit system, the Revolving Fund; a Business Centre; the organization of business support and the

implementation of a structure in which thegenerated entrepreneurs become themselveseducators, supporters and full responsibleowners of the self-supporting YouthEntrepreneurship Development Program.

For more information:

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ICS (Investing in Children andtheir Societies) strives towardsa better future for children inrural Africa and Asia. Through itsprojects and programs, it builds

on a sustainable growth in welfare and wellbeing

by simultaneously investing in economic and socialopportunities and needs. The central building blocksof the work of ICS are social business, child protectionand skillful parenting.

ICS Academy

Under its youth empowerment program ICS intends to

develop an ICS Academy with various youth training

projects in all its program areas. This ICS Academy

will include both sector specific training (in agriculture,

ICT or mechanics) and entrepreneurship development

programs. ICS will partner with private sector actors and

training institutes (Dutch and/or local) to safeguard the

relevance and quality of the programs and to facilitate

the youths transition from training to (self-)employment.

Young Entrepreneurs Program (Y.E.P.)

To expand its programs, ICS develops a youthempowerment program that prepares and supports rural

youth to become (self-)employed, earn a proper income

and contribute to local economic development. In line

with the ICS social business approach, the program

should be market-oriented and have the potential

to become financially sustainable; equipping youth

with relevant and marketable skills without relying on

continuous external subsidies.

TANZANIA (MEATU) YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM (Y.E.P.)

Sengerema Foundation (SF)

Since May 2012 ICS is in touch with the Dutch Stichting

Sengerema (further referred to as Sengerema

Foundation). This Dutch foundation has initiated a youth

entrepreneurship program in the town of Sengerema

(Mwanza Region) Tanzania. The Sengerema Foundation

was established in May 2008 in The Netherlands, with

the objective of supporting deprived youngsters in

developing countries to set up their own small business,

and thereby to generate income for themselves and

their dependents. In addition, Sengerema Foundation

(SF) aims to improve the local environment and

conditions for young entrepreneurs, relevant to setting

up businesses.

Since 2008 Sengerema Foundation has acquired anexperience in this development work, which has beenconsolidated in a model for youth entrepreneurship

development. The Sengerema Foundations Model for

Youth Entrepreneurship Development; SF Model for

Youth Entrepreneurship Development. This model has

been designed with its know-how, expertise and the

lessons learned in the field when realising its projects.

ICS & Sengerema Foundation (SF)

During a program development mission in October

2012, ICS and the Sengerema Foundation developed

the Meatu Young Entrepreneurs Program, based on the

SF Model for Youth Entrepreneurship Development. This

program will be implemented in Meatu by SF and ICS

together.

The model is based on the following propositions:

financial support is not to be considered as

a charity, but as an asset which local people

are to be responsible for themselves; financial support is accompanied by

provision of knowledge and skills, relevant

and applicable in the specific local context; local authorities actively support the

program and harmonize it with their overall

development schemes for the district;

through the Revolving Fund, fed by thepayback of loans and the income of the

exploitation of a business centre (realestate), the program will be self-supporting;

the ownership and responsibility ofthe economic development of new

generations is taken over in full by the

young entrepreneurs, who form their own

Community Based Organisation (CBO).

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