Community Business Classes

Entrepreneurial mindset and understanding about business are the beginning of economic development. Cultivating potential entrepreneur’s ability to find ways to provide a service or a product to the community can be developed through community-based business classes.

LEAD provides community business classes to anyone willing to take the time to learn. While this may seem like a generous gift, in fact, it’s not. For those who take the post-session test and pass, we provide a certificate of completion and allow them to take more advanced business classes. This is a tool for LEAD to identify local business capacity and individual drive within a community. Through providing these classes the community’s business knowledge base grows along with small start-ups. LEAD can identify potential candidates for its trade schools. Those with business abilities have the opportunity to teach eager students.

Education and exposure to new ideas empowers people to help themselves.

Tiago had attended numerous business classes in Guinea-Bissau. He already had shown innovation in helping others. One morning he sent his son to go buy some bread for breakfast. As he ate that morning he said to himself, “Why am I paying others for bread when I could make the bread myself and eat for free?” Eventually he opened a bakery. There are many people eager to better their lives.

LEAD has helped people create small businesses in ice cream production, chicken farming and in both goods and services using various business approaches taught in our community business classes.

When business people share what they know they dramatically impact the lives of those who live in poverty. From basic entrepreneurship to the complexities of running a small business, accounting to sales, capital formation to hiring, virtually every kind of specialization can have a direct impact to creating wealth.