Struisbaai BEST game (Charity funded training)

Partner(s):

Grassroots communities from various parts of South Africa benefit from SAIE’s business development training administered by Laura Baylis autonomously. Laura Baylis is a free lance instructor involved in the administration of SAIE’s training programmes worldwide. Laura trains members of the community at grass-roots level to learn how to start and run their own businesses. This project was conducted in Khayelitsha, located on the outskirts of Cape Town, by Laura Baylis in May and June of 2009. Khayelitsha is an ideal location to conduct BEST game training due to the need for creating an entrepreneurial mindset for Khayelitsha's 2 million inhabitants. The demographics of this area consist of 90 percent black and 8 percent colored. In this project Laura Baylis taught the learners about the methodologies of running a business. This includes the concepts of honesty, genrosity and excellence in running a business.

Our Involvement:

Beyond the regular, formalized long term programs like BEST Game and BusinessVENTURES, SAIE business development expertise is also leveraged through independent agents as “exclusive projects”. Because of the irregular character of the exclusive projects, they do not have an established, ongoing program implementation mechanism, thus “exclusive projects.” In most cases, independent agents conduct the training after receiving master trainer training from SAIE. In other cases, SAIE service providers and staff may conduct the training on behalf of the firm. The training is usually customized to meet the unique characteristics of the recipient groups.

Project Progress:

On the 2nd/3rd & 16th/17th July 2010 the BEST game with Laura Baylis took place in Struisbaai.

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Product:

Special Projects

Location:

Western Cape