Graduates gained skills to venture into business for income generation

Most students expecting white collar jobs after graduating. To them, to be employed is better than employing themselves. Unfortunately, now days the situation has changed so that many youth become unemployed after graduating.

From 2015 to present the unemployment rate has become very high. Youth failed to access economic opportunities because they lack practical business skills and entrepreneurial mindset .

SUGECO addresses this issue by conducting different youth programs around Tanzania and collaborating with different stakeholders. The program trains youth in basic business skills, financing, mindset transformation and business plan. With this set of skills, youth graduated with the potential to become entrepreneurs and start their own businesses.

Prisila is a student from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) completing a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness. She is one among the beneficiary of our two projects ie. Training on Processing and Value addition for Vegetables and Horticultural Crops and Enhancing Youth Agribusiness Skills and Employability in Tanzania, focused on Commercial Nursery Establishment of Trees, Fruit Trees and Vegetable Seedlings. Prisilla is an active member of SUGECO who had an opportunity to participate in our training programs that supports youth for skills development and employability. 

She graduated from the training in 2019 and used her knowledge to start her own small business. She presented her idea of making Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) bread and cake to friends and neighbors who supported her in buying the bread. She also found regular customers at nearby university through fellow students as well as supply in retail shops.

Prisila found the training program to be a great learning experience, she is now capable of running her business and fulfill her daily needs. This program has trained more than 144 youth.