Newsletter September 2018

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WB RUBUSANA HIGH SCHOOL This school has taken the EEESAY opportunity and makes the most of it. When the 2017 Grade 11 learners graduated to Grade 12 they handed over to the newcomers, who continued working on their tuckshop and now they are investigating how to expand their business. They sell snacks and doughnuts at break times.

DNC COMBINED SCHOOL The learners at DNC are proactive and engaged; they hosted a beauty pageant and a cinema event to raise the start-up capital needed for their two businesses. The learners started with a tuckshop, selling snacks and cold drinks. EKWALUSENI HIGH SCHOOL Ekwaluseni is another school that sets an example for what is possible when people decide to work through their challenges, rather than giving up. When their garden failed due to water and fencing issues, the business team looked at alternative business ideas and so they started over. The school now has a newly established tuckshop that is starting to do well.

School Tuck Shops

It makes good business sense to focus on a business that has a ready- made customer base, as many schools have discovered. One of the challenges some schools encountered was that the existing tuckshop vendors were concerned about the school becoming a trade competitor.

PHAKAMANI SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL This is school is the most remotely situated of all the businesses. Having chosen a tuckshop business, the school has had to plan really well on how to buy stock for the business. The school is 88 km from Queenstown, on mostly gravel roads. The school business operates by selling snacks, drinks, sweets and chips to learners and educators.

TOISE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL Toise learners are very excited about running a tuckshop; selling snacks to educators and learners. Situated in a rural area, access to these items is not easy and the tuckshop idea is popular among customers.

Participating in the School Business project has help me to be able to communicate with others and I’ve learned a lot from the EEESAY. I am now able to express myself. Balungile Hlongwane, Colenso High School, KZN

In a few months I've learnt many things on starting a business and now I'm already seeing my dream of being a young entrepreneur coming true ..... All thanks to EEESAY. Learner from Sesiyabonga High School