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PROJECT OBJECTIVES:
1. Strengthen the capacity of adolescents (boys and girls) (according to WHO) aged 13 to 17 (in public schools in Duitama, through the development of competencies and skills to promote the economic development of the community with their families.
2. Create entrepreneurship opportunities through family productive units, with the endorsement of their parents or caregivers, and improve access to sources of economic support.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Rotary Club of Duitama, through the project, will address the needs identified for the implementation of the EMPOWERED ADOLESCENTS TODAY, ENTREPRENEURS TOMORROW program, creating entrepreneurship opportunities to improve access to sources of economic support. The program will be developed in 5 phases that will be executed in a maximum of 4 sessions each.
Phase 1: Why Teen Empowerment? Empowerment Competencies: Includes theoretical workshops on life skills, violence against children, adolescent issues, mental health; life project and importance and definition of entrepreneurship in Colombia.
Phase 2: Entrepreneurship Training: Includes training through hands-on workshops
focused on 3 types of ventures; Example: Decoration with balloons, handkerchiefs with yarn and chocolate making, jewelry, country art, among others. In this phase, you will be given the materials to learn one of the ventures, dividing the 30 teenagers into 3 groups.
Phase 3: Economic Management of an Enterprise: Includes planning, budgeting, and marketing the art or skill taught and learned.
Phase 4: Digital Marketing Skills Development: Training in the use of social media and technology for business purposes.
In phases 3 and 4, adolescents will learn business, administrative and planning skills so that they can organize a family business or with the community and learn to calculate costs and sales prices of the product or service, identify markets and learn digital marketing, managing to create production and marketing processes.
Phase 5: Business Exhibition Fair: Exhibition open to the community with the support of public, private and civic entities of the Municipality, with the aim of marketing (together with family groups) and publicizing the services and goods offered to the community.
In this phase they will participate in the Entrepreneurship Fair with the support of the Duitama Chamber of Commerce, where the products and services of the skills learned during the program will be exhibited, allowing them to achieve an opportunity to realize their life project.
Additionally, recognition will be given to the best ventures that will be exhibited at the fair where approximately 140 adolescents (10 students X 14 schools) will participate.
DESCRIBE WHAT NEEDS YOU IDENTIFY. HOW WILL THE PROJECT MEET THESE NEEDS? WHO WILL BE THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS PROJECT? AN ESTIMATED NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES.
Identified Needs: Through the execution of the needs assessment, under statistics from the municipality of Duitama. By the year 2020, the leading cause of morbidity in mental health was mental and behavioral disorders and through meetings, and interviews conducted withIn the case of young adolescents who impact the economic development of the community, the following problems are found in young adolescents that impact the economic development of the community, These are:
1. The absence of parents, the lack of opportunities in their family and social environment prevent them from strengthening principles, values and life skills that do not allow a clear visualization of a life project.
2. Confusion in the identification of their gender, gender-based violence and lack of gender equity.
3. School dropout due to poverty and lack of access to higher education.
BENEFICIARIES
This project will be developed in 14 official educational institutions (public schools), formalizing the project through a Certificate of Commitment with the Ministry of Education or Educational Institution in order to guarantee the development of the project with the groups selected by their directors, in each school. A group of 30 adolescents will be chosen, thus directly impacting 420 adolescents.
The indirect beneficiaries are: The family group of each adolescent (at least 2 people), i.e. 60 people for the 14 schools, for a total of 840 people.
The program includes 4 phases where theoretical and practical workshops are developed that we call "sessions", each session lasts 2 hours and is carried out with 30 adolescents per institution. Thus, the total number of sessions in the 14 schools adds up to 252 for 420 adolescents.
SUSTAINABILITY:
Development of economic potential and entrepreneurship through theoretical-practical workshops for community members, through leadership training with tools for the empowerment of adolescents. It is a sustainable project because, in addition to being a measurable initiative that seeks continuity over time and that equality and empowerment of adolescents is goal #5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. (United Nations), allows it to be an essential element of all dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development of all communities, therefore, activities of involvement, training, written agreements and commitment will be carried out with the communities or actors involved such as the Duitama Chamber of Commerce and with the target population (adolescents, mothers, fathers or caregivers) to carry out a transfer of knowledge and maintain the initiative once the objectives have been exhausted. Grant funds through the search for and use of local resources and the financing of public and private organizations at the international, national, departmental and local levels that are related to the empowerment of adolescents or the social development of communities.
After receiving these tools, it is expected that at least 3 adolescents (10%) from each school will replicate this knowledge to their families and communities to strengthen the project.
IS THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED? DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTINUITY OF THE PROJECT.
With the aim of social transformation with the development of this project, a positive change will be achieved in the lives of adolescents.
The following entities will participate, working as a team with the Rotary Club of Duitama, through purchase acts.neglectful:
Secretary of Education of Duitama, Chamber of Commerce of Duitama and Municipal Mayor's Office: Advisory of Social Programs (women's house)
FINANCING OF THE PROJECT
Cost of the project USD $ $32.000
Local Club USD $ $ 1.000
District 4281 FDD 470
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