Our distance learning model has the same three core components — skills lessons, practical experience and mentorship, and assessments — delivered to youth directly through radio and basic phone technologies.

Session 1: Regrowing Vegetables

The coronavirus has caused new challenges in Uganda. For example, food prices have increased and people have lost income. Entrepreneurs see solutions where others see problems. You can identify business ideas by matching needs and available resources. Check out Scholar Hellen's vision to achieve food security and her tips for regrowing vegetables in your home.

Session 2: Setting up a Sack Garden

Have you ever dreamed of a better future? Educate! Scholars are great leaders and entrepreneurs because they believe change is possible. Driven by a great vision they take action every day to achieve short-term goals, which lead to long-term goals which lead to realizing a bigger vision. Check out the steps Scholar Hellen is taking to work towards her vision of achieving food security.

Session 3: Resource Mobilization

In the last session, we learned how to set up a sack garden and set a short-term goal of setting up 5 big sacks and 3 different vegetables so we can develop a business model using available resources! Now let’s talk about resource mobilization. Check out the next steps Scholar Hellen is taking to start small and grow big.

Session 4: Small Space Farming Recap

In the first episode, we learned how young entrepreneurs can identify business ideas by matching resources, needs, and skills. The second week, we learned that entrepreneurs have a vision of a brighter tomorrow, and they will bring positive change by setting long- and short-term goals and planning action steps. In the 3rd episode, we focused on mobilizing resources for our businesses, even with little or NO capital at all. Now, it's time to review what we've learned and talk about what comes next!

Session 5: Start and Grow Your Business From Home

This week, we are talking about how we identify which business ideas we want to pursue. Specifically, we are learning to use the Passion Match tool! Passion matching helps us match a need in our community with resources we have available to us so that we can be the solution to local challenges.

Session 6: Having a Vision

In this episode, we are talking about the importance of having a vision. Leaders and entrepreneurs can solve problems by identifying challenges, setting goals, and committing to action steps to make a vision into reality!

Session 7: Customer Research

In this episode, we talk about ways to connect with your potential customers and to meet their unique needs with your products!

Session 8: Distributing Products During COVID-19

In this episode, we go over the importance of finding innovative new ways to reach your target market in this new normal, and how you can keep yourself and others safe from COVID while you sell your products.

Session 9: Thinking Differently About Business

This episode presents ideas about ways that young people can set their businesses apart from the competition, such identifying gaps between user demand and existing products and creating a product which will fill that gap!