Social Entrepreneurship For Youth (SEFY) or Social Entrepreneurship for young people is the theme of the program designed by the association Moonlight Madagascar for high school students in Moramanga. 200 young people registered, 50 of them were pre-selected for the first stage. A second selection retained 25 of them to go to the final phase. Started in January 2023, this program was divided into ten training sessions on several modules closely related to entrepreneurship. The objective is to inculcate the entrepreneurial spirit from an early age. Each participant had to deliver a 3-minute pitch to present and defend their project. In short, it was a real scenario for these young people who are about to enter working life.
Support
Funded by the US Embassy for Madagascar and the Comoros, supported by Société Générale and SOLIDIS, the program ended on May 20 in Moramanga where six champions were rewarded during the closing ceremony. They distinguished themselves, not only by their project, but above all in the way they presented it and defended it before an audience made up of members of the jury, representatives of the partners, those in charge of education and parents. A local official to declare: “This kind of initiative is really welcome, it complements what these students are already learning in class while opening them up to the world of entrepreneurship”. On the side of the association Moonlight Madagascarits president to declare “we were pleasantly surprised by the transformation of the student beneficiaries, we will work to implement the program for other localities in order to reach as many people as possible”.
Arranged by Rakotobe
