Young Entrepreneurs Showcase Business Skills
On May 22, 2007, Junior Achievement together with the local Committee on Youth, Sport, and Tourism and the Sughd Regional Department of Education organized a “Young Entrepreneurs Fair 2007” in Khujand, Tajikistan. More than 700 visitors and 200 school companies from nine cities participated in the fair.
The event was the final stage of Junior Achievement’s Student Company Program, implemented in Tajikistan schools with USAID support. The program has provided young people with a unique opportunity to gain practical entrepreneurial skills. Students learn to develop business plans, establish and run their own companies, participate in decision-making as stockholders or members of the Board of Directors, and earn wages or salaries from company activities. At the fair, student companies sold their goods and services to businessmen, representatives of mass and local authority, teachers, and parents. They also competed on quality and positioning of their goods and services, creativity of advertisement, sales techniques, and customer service.
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At the fair, students promoted and sold products and services of their school companies
Photo Credit: Junior Achievement |
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