Student-Run Businesses
Supported by Nurturing Minds, the Sega Girls School is establishing student-run businesses to: - generate income to ensure long-term financial sustainability - improve the quality of education by providing practical training in business and entrepreneurship. We are partnering with NGO Fundacion Paraguaya, funded by a Mastercard Foundation grant, to adapt their successful model "Education that pays for itself" for the Sega Girls School. A business plan is being developed to identify student-run businesses that will provide long-term financial self-sufficiency: Poultry farming Hotel & Catering Tourism Teaching English as a Second Language Bakery Organic gardening		Sega students have a marketing lesson in Morogoro

Our first student-run business, the poultry farm, is up and running!
A view of one chicken pen from inside another	Thanks to our amazing donors and to generous grants from Dining for Women and the U.S Embassy in Tanzania, we have completed construction of two chicken pens and equipped them ready for the 1,000 chicks that arrived April 2012, with another flock of 1,000 chicks in June.   We are planning to construct one more pen, and to have three flocks of 900 chickens to generate profit from the sale of eggs.   The farm manager will oversee the poultry farm and will supervise the Sega students as they participate in running the farm as part of their education.	A happy farm manager settling in the new chicks
The Sega students say: "We are excited about the chicken farm. It will help me know how to have my own farm and I will know about kuku (chickens), what they need and to prevent diseases. I will learn how to sell eggs to make money and how to run a good business."

Valuable training in business skills and entrepreneurship
The Sega Girls School's first venture into experiential training in business and entrepreneurship involved the Form 3 students working on a tie-dye T-shirt enterprise.   The students first worked on the best technique to produce tie-dye T-shirts and then sold them in local marketplaces. The students learned valuable business lessons about production costs, potential setbacks, planning, pricing and sales. Check out the full story on the following blog posts: Phase 1 and Phase 2.
		The Sega students say: "When we made tie-dye T-shirts to sell them it was really hard but we learned to be tolerant and to convince people to buy our product. When we sold some we were very happy because we knew we could be good at business. We learned how to plan and to list costs of everything we need if we do business. We know how to be smart an find the people who want to buy our things so we will be good in our business. Of course we can do our own business. We can make money to get food and a house for our families. "