Newsletter September 2018

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CATHCART HIGH SCHOOL

Besides making ottoman stools and sewing school tracksuits, Cathcart also makes and sells food in their café.

Our school business has taught us perseverance in the light of challenges and how not to pollute and damage our environment. We have also gained plenty business skills.

BYLETTS HIGH SCHOOL

Byletts is a boarding school in a rural area and so the business can only sell to learners and staff, or to the school. They make fat cakes ( vetkoek ) and fish that is sold on specific days. The team also does catering for parent meetings. They have a succession plan in place to help new learners come into the business in 2019.

We have learned that good planning is important. We have also seen how important it is to work as a team.

MANA HIGH SCHOOL

EEESAY has been nothing but a great experience. We have benefited a lot, such as the development of our young entrepreneurs. Our learners are exposed to business management and operations. They also learn a lot about financial management. Mana High School educator

The business team realised they can make money using their baking and cooking skills. The team prepares hot dogs and cakes that are sold to educators,

learners and also to the surrounding community.

COLENSO COMBINED SCHOOL

The Colenso business team has started off making and selling hotdogs to sell to learners and educators. They quickly realised that if they want to make a better profit they have to expand their product range. This school has persevered despite community protests and strikes in their area. The learners are determined to succeed.

BULELANI HIGH SCHOOL

Our market research showed that people are interested in buying hot dogs, muffins, sandwiches, fat cakes, chicken, rolls, fruit, cakes, donuts, salad and cold drinks. This gave us our start-up ideas.

The school business team thought of four business ideas to start off with and they decided to choose a tuckshop business so that it could have a positive impact on the health of learners and they would make sure that all packaging is recycled.

Passion, determination and persistence are always key if you want to succeed in anything in life. I was inspired to join EEESAY by the fact that I want to be independent, be my own boss and learn how to operate a business through acquiring the necessary and relevant skills.