I got a chance to take on experience educate Uganda's entrepreneurship and leadership course and I will try to guide you on what to expect from it. I know most people don’t like taking somehow useless courses that don’t impact them in the present, but please, take some time to consider what I am going to tell you.
I joined experience educate in the first months of the second COVID-19 wave in Uganda when I had nothing to do. I got it through the radio advertisement and applied on mobile using *284*250#. Just as expected, the guys reached back in about two weeks and I was assigned to a great mentor named Josephine.
It was not long before I realized that experience educate is also part of programs funded by the Gates foundation which is obviously owned by Bill Gates. First-time things are always exciting so, we embarked on the study though some guys dodged just like normal school classes. Below is the full outline of what we learnt.
Course units at Experience educate
Level 1: Community Service Action
Here we learnt how great startups contribute to building society and solving problems outside their business endeavors. As our world is rotting at a very high rate, the awkward possibilities in the life beyond our death-line are causing panic. As a result, businesses are encouraged to contribute to actions that help to solve major problems in society.
I didn’t expect businesses to mind about that, but we got some great examples to back up the fact. In learning that, the main goal attained is to sharpen your leadership skills as all guys are required to submit reviews of how they mobilized other youths towards a common challenge-solving goal.
The main problems routed from the PEDVU acronym meaning; poverty, environmental degradation, diseases, violence and unemployment.
This level also gives you chance to critically identify the resources available to you in your area and helps to push for the next level where the proper use of those resources is taught.
Level 2: Business model
A business model is a specific business plan with greater space for learning, planning and innovation. In this level, you learn how to draft a business model basing on the passion match, discussed in the final lab of level 2 as an algorithm used to determine what business matches your passion by following very simple steps.
Here you are also guided on doing heart-cracking customer research for your products. I did commerce at school, but I think this bootcamp gave me an additional look into how everyday commerce works.
In addition, peer to peer help boosted us up because I made some few friends from the course. If you think making friends is hard, try this camp and you’ll make some. This is because the meetings are held by call conferencing so, you’ll not be intimidated by looking people in their faces.
Level 3: Financial management
I know that financial management isn’t taught in school and even when taught, a person’s personal perspective of how his finances are handled is what really changes someone. As difficult as it sounds, you need to look for ways of getting all perspectives and hopefully land on one that matches your inner fight with finances.
Simply, in this level, you mainly learn how to protect business funds from your personal, but useless needs using the scale of preference where you throw in all your needs then start taking them out according to their inclination towards your goals.
You also learn how to craft sales speeches and the traditional way to approaching customers and pushing them towards cracking your sales deal.
Conclusion
Life can be hard sometimes, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go for some of the obvious bbootcamp. In the camp though, you are awarded points that determine the type of certificate that you are meant to receive. In future, you might become broke. Educate offers jobs to people as mentors and managers. To get such side hustles, you need to have a certificate to be on the high end.
It’s just a month's course. If you’ve got some free minutes to embark on learning simply click
*284*250#
That’s if you are in Uganda. For those in other African countries apart from Uganda, check out the educate site to find out how you can jump for the offer. There are other offers like funding your small business, providing tuition and airtime as the course goes, but these are side offers. Don’t apply to win capital, but to learn. If the capital lands on you, well and good. If your main aim is getting a present, you might end up being depressed for nothing. Thanks for reading.
If you got any questions please let me know in the comments section.
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