A UNHCR report released in 2015 said: “Wars, conflict and persecution have forced more people than at any other time since records began to flee their homes and seek refuge and safety elsewhere, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency.”  The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report also[…]

The HIV/AIDs pandemic has affected many of the most impoverished nations leaving many families without bread winners and many households to be headed by children.  We have trained in many nations & cities where there are very high HIV infection rates where people have been marginalised because of their condition[…]

66% of the graduates from our training have been women and many come to be trained because they have been widowed.  Others come because their husbands have abandoned their families or because their husbands spend what they earn on alcohol or gambling leaving their wives to carry the burden of[…]

Justice Issues

Unemployment is extra-ordinarily high here in South Africa and rising. And this is the case in many countries. One of the solutions we bring to help this is to help teach entrepreneurship. The course that we run launches the graduates to start a micro-business during the training and then in[…]

Since we started in 2006, the training has been to a number of countries in Africa. We have now trained in one or more cities in DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Mozambique, Kenya, South Sudan and then around South Africa. In many of the countries[…]

One of the characteristics of Asia is the hard-working entrepreneurial nature of the people living there. One of images that any visitor to the region will remember are all the markets – the day markets, the night markets, the floating markets all filled with all these business owners and entrepreneurs.[…]

Working is a core part of our existence – whether it is part-time or full-time, doing something we love or something which we would rather do less of. The average person will spend 25-30% of their week doing some form of work to earn an income. Some people come through[…]

Our programme is built on 10 values that we teach and integrate into our training.  We believe that successful, sustainable businesses are built on strong values and principals as much as they are built on products and services that provide real value to their customers.  How the customers, suppliers and[…]