No Limits on Entrepreneurship: Street Business School as a Partner for those with Disabilities
The power of the SBS curriculum lies in its ability to be adapted to fit many different contexts, working with our partners’ programming to support a wide range of people, places, and needs. This coming February, SBS will be proud to host a workshop for ten organizations working with people with disabilities in East Africa, certifying staff members from new partner organizations to return to their communities and equip their participants with the tools and confidence to start and maintain successful businesses.
As a result of this workshop, we expect more than 1,900 people with disabilities to be trained using the SBS curriculum over the next five years, which will in turn support their more than 9,600 dependent children (on average, participants have approximately five children). From just one workshop, more than 11,000 lives will be indelibly changed.
By making a gift in support of SBS, you can play a crucial role in helping lift thousands of people out of poverty each year.
People with disabilities around the world experience extreme levels of discrimination and a distinct lack of opportunity in obtaining formal employment. Less than 40% of people living with a disability in sub-Saharan Africa are employed, and many of them are older women with limited levels of education. This workshop will help directly address these disparities.
Our training – tailor made to address the unique challenges faced by women experiencing poverty with limited education – is the perfect tool for this work. In fact, some of our strongest implementing partners, such as the Karambi Group of People with Disabilities (KAGPWD), are implementing the SBS curriculum with terrific success. Graduates trained by KAGPWD have gone on to more than double their incomes and are better able to support themselves and their families as a result.
We are thrilled at the prospect of welcoming ten new organizations like KAGPWD as members of the SBS network, supporting grassroots organizations working in a key development sector to provide the highest impact possible, while continuing to demonstrate the ripple effect of investing in economic empowerment through entrepreneurship.
Your support of our work will help make partnerships like this a reality, equipping entrepreneurs around the world with the skills to exit poverty sustainably, regardless of physical ability, education, or income.
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