Program Overview
Through Into Your Hands-Africa's enterprise development programs, students gain hands-on business skills and create income generating projects for themselves, their families, and their school. Students learn animal rearing, agricultural, and business management skills which prepares them to become job-creators and in the meantime, helps them to pay for household necessities and much needed school fees.
St. Denis Self-Sufficiency Project
In partnership with
Teach A Man To Fish
and Into Your Hands, St. Denis has created a three year road map
to becoming 100% financially self-sufficient through the St.
Denis Self-Sufficiency Project. These
projects will allow graduates to leave St. Denis with extra
vocational qualifications and experience in business, increasing
their chances of establishing their own successful rural
enterprise, gaining employment and/or entry into tertiary
education. The wider community also benefits from having a
better educated and skilled young generation, imparting their
knowledge to their families and beyond.Learn more about the St. Denis Self-Sufficiency Project
Send a Piglet Home and Send a Goat Home Program
The Send a Piglet Home
and Send a Goat Home Programs provides
the orphaned or vulnerable students at St. Denis with piggery
training and the resources to begin a piggery at their home.
After successful completion of pig-keeping training, the
students build their own piglet shelter at their home and
receive a piglet to raise. Once the piglet matures, it is
bred to produce a litter of eight to ten piglets that are sold
at the market. The extra income from the sale of the
piglets helps the students increase the family's household
income.
Learn more about the Send a
Piglet Home and Send a Goat Home Programs
St. Denis Community Internet and Business Centre (CIBC)
Since 2008, Into Your Hands has provided the
St. Denis Computer Lab with computers, internet service, a
copier, printer, and other office equipment. St. Denis has
used these resources to create a community internet and business
centre that serves the needs of nearby businesses and schools
who would otherwise travel half a day's journey for these
services. The income generated from this business centre
will provide much needed income for the school. Under the
leadership of Fred, the computer teacher, the school will be
able to provide the students with a certificate program on
computer literacy and repair.
