Bump It

Last Thursday Kirsten and I finished teaching our first Self Employment Workshop. The following picture is us with all of our students. From left to right we have Christian, Sledge, Kirsten, Owusu, Jonathan, Godfred, Nawal, Richard, Ali, Rancy, Lizzy, and Rufus. Don't they have the coolest names? Sledge and Godfred are still working on how to be seen in a picture but at least you get the idea, right??

It was so wonderful to get to know each of these people. As we taught them you could see that they began to have hope that their dreams and aspirations really can come true by through planning and applying sound business principles. Robert is here this week and he was asking us about how our first week of teaching went. He asked us if it seemed that the lightbulb really went on for them and the conclusion we came to is that the lightbulb is beginning to flicker. At first they were quite shy but over time most of them opened up and were willing to share with the class. I am excited to start teaching more people next week!

This week the manager told us that we would be consulting with our students individually to help them further develop their business plans. We told our students this and gave them our "office hours" when they could come in and get help from us. We set here all day Wednesday and Thursday without a single visit. It's been nice to have lots of internet browsing time but that isn't what we came here for. We want some work! Yesterday we were sitting here all bored when Nawal (pictured above, wearing the pink shirt) walked in to show us the advertisement that she has created for her business. She is currently preparing to go and visit some potential customers for her grocery delivery service. It was such a wonderful end to a long day! I am so happy that she is excited and moving forward with her business.