Private Sector Perspectives on Skills Development and Economic Empowerment

Mumbai,India – At the 2nd Annual International Summit on Skills Development held in Mumbai on June 15,2011,one issue became apparent – India’s emerging economy and its young,largely unskilled workforce are at a critical and transformative moment. To realize the nation’s economic potential and address its widespread poverty,private,government,and nongovernment [...]

A Home in India

 

Haryana,India – It is hard to define what makes a home or why home feels the way it does for each of us in both different and similar ways.  It is about the spaces,the smells,the sounds,and of course,the people. India is not my home. In fact,my home is [...]

The Value of Enterprise…and the Power of the Koosh!

Not long ago I received word from Kristy,our program manager at SKI in Canada,that a Canadian NGO was interested in receiving the Street Business Took Kit training for their local partners in the Eastern region of Sierra Leone. While I was familiar with the training material and of its benefits for budding young [...]

Small Steps Turn Business Dreams into Reality

Anya and I are on the road,making the slow return to Bo from our Street Business training in Koidu,Eastern Sierra Leone. They practically had to drag me out of the city,I was so enamoured. We met a lot of great folks and I interviewed a number of them to find out how [...]

An Alternative Education

When I first was offered this internship,I was a bit torn. Personally,I thought every kid should stay in school until they finished what is the equivalent of grade 12 in Canada,and what Street Kids does it teach youth that are street involved and usually not a part of the traditional education system [...]

Monitoring and Evaluating Youth Beneficiaries

Here in Ethiopia,we have spent the past week designing and testing a standardized quantitative questionnaire that will be integrated into the new SKI curriculum as a prerequisite for implementation.

It was an extremely intense week:full of meetings all-day;everyday,and plenty of site visits. Though intensive,I feel happy to have taken part [...]