TEACH CHILDREN TO FISH...

Fundación Paraguaya Project Manager Laina John Mwandoloma speaking during the business club market day event yesterday. She was flanked by Iringa Regional Commissioner Amina Masenza on the left hand side and Iringa district commissioner Richard Kasesela on the right hand side (Photo by Friday Simbaya) 

Tanzania Broadcast Corporation (TBC) television reporter based in Iringa Region Irene Mwakalinga (R) admires a locally made sanitary pads made by Kiwere Secondary Secondary School students during the Fundación Paraguaya  business club market day event  held in Iringa yesterday. (Photo by Friday Simbaya)

Iringa regional commissioner Amina Masenza (in veil) receives information from a student how they harvest rabbits urine used as insecticide during the Fundación Paraguaya business club market day event held in Iringa yesterday. (Photo by Friday Simbaya)

THE Fundación Paraguaya Project Manager, Laina Mwandoloma has urged the community teaching their children to fish but not to give fish to them in order to build up the ability to Self-Sustaining in future. 

She said that children need to be given life skills including education for self reliance because it is one the best way of preparing for their future.

Mwandoloma made the appeal yesterday during the Business Club’s Market Day exhibition, which held at the Kichangani grounds municipality of Iringa, Iringa region. 

The celebration went on together with the 18th anniversary of the death of Julius Kambarage Nyerere who started the ideology of education for self reliance through socialism.

She said that it was worthwhile and upgrading the fortune of Julius Nyerere a father of the national’s education for self reliance by teaching children life skills that will make them to be responsible citizens later on.

About the business club, She said that is a financial entrepreneurial education program for youth, aimed at providing students with hand-on business experience by setting up small scale enterprises through the methodology known as ‘Learning by doing, earning and saving’.

She said that the program focuses on financial literacy and entrepreneurship to deliver programs that equip youth with practical, hand-on business experience.

“The program has managed to set up 51 business clubs in various secondary schools in Iringa region though the United Kingdom agency for international development (UKAID) in collaboration with Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) which supports various innovations,” she said.

On her part, Iringa Regional Commissioner Amina Masenza, who was the guest of honour during the event thanked the Fundación Paraguaya for establishing business clubs in schools, but urged the program to be spread in all schools of the region.

She advised the students to utilize the program very well because it is one way of being self reliance, hence poverty reduction.

Masenza also challenged the parents and guardians to encourage their children to participate in business clubs because it is one way of empowering them with entrepreneurial education.

Paraguay Foundation (PF) is nonprofit organization which was established in 1985 in Paraguay, South America. It is non profit

Since 2005 the Fundación Paraguaya has been proactively striving to disseminate the Self-Sufficient School model to the entire world, seeking other institutions to adopt and replicate it. 

To this end, it has created the Teach a Man to Fish network and has organized information exchange conferences and best practices.