During our second week we started introducing Finance/Accounting as well as Supply Chain Management and Law subjects to the High School and Business Class students. Furthermore, we discussed the topic supply and demand, as well as Emotional Intelligence (EI) and how this is related to promotion and selling of own ideas and products. Challenge for these students was a 2 minutes pitch where they had to introduce and sell a product of their choice in order to convince the audience of buying their product. Feedback was given to them by the audience. By using practical examples the students will realize the need of understanding what they are doing and how to convince others of their ideas.
On Saturday Robin was invited to give a guest lecture about self-confidence to the students of the business class. He talked about the 8 steps of success and gave practical examples for each step. By involving the audience into his lecture, he created an interesting and motivated atmosphere for everybody.
Afterwards, William from the Mombasa government joined our Saturday class and talked about the "Youth & Community Participation". He stressed the importance of community involvement for the youth, but also explained how the government can support these clubs with fundings. All students enjoyed the two guest lectures and gave very positive feedback. One of the students from the business class invited us to the Majengo Youth Group for Sunday late afternoon in order to talk about prevention of HIV, early marriage and education.
The Majengo Youth Group was founded in December 2012 and is basically helping the people from Majengo to stay away from the streets and give them hope and opportunities to change their life. Most of the members dropped out of school and were earlier involved in taking drugs and prostitute themselves. During our visit we mainly socialised and got to know the members and asked for their expectations towards us and how we could help them. The plan for the next Sunday is to prepare a prevention class to discuss the topic of HIV, early marriage, prostitution and education. Futhermore, we also invited the members to our Saturday Business Class, as this course is extra for non St. Joseph House of Hope students. In addition, we are planning to offer art and basic computer courses during next Saturday's class to extend the students knowledge and give them better opportunities on the job market, but also for their own business creation.
The Majengo Youth Group was founded in December 2012 and is basically helping the people from Majengo to stay away from the streets and give them hope and opportunities to change their life. Most of the members dropped out of school and were earlier involved in taking drugs and prostitute themselves. During our visit we mainly socialised and got to know the members and asked for their expectations towards us and how we could help them. The plan for the next Sunday is to prepare a prevention class to discuss the topic of HIV, early marriage, prostitution and education. Futhermore, we also invited the members to our Saturday Business Class, as this course is extra for non St. Joseph House of Hope students. In addition, we are planning to offer art and basic computer courses during next Saturday's class to extend the students knowledge and give them better opportunities on the job market, but also for their own business creation.
Besides teaching and working together with the High School and Business Class students, our team got in closer contact with the local village people and visited their homes and played with the children, who do not have the possibility to go to school and interact with us. We are all very touched by their sincerity and hospitality towards us and we are very much looking forward to the upcoming weeks, planned with more interactive classes and practical example
It looks very inspiring!
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