As far as bloggers go, I'm probably sub-par. I've been in country 8 months now (damn!) and I've only put up 11 posts - 2 of which came before I even left. So for that, my apologies. My intentions for blogging was to keep in-the-loop the people who were interested while not destroying any Facebook friendships I have with oversharing of stories and photos. I promise to (try) to do better.
As the title suggests, I'm going to focus a bit on my work. More with a future post than with this one, but I thought it would be nice to show you some photos from my first training. In really cool ways, I might actually be able to share my work with you. I'll explain in a bit.
Back in February I partnered with the Municipality of Swakopmund's Local Economic Development Officer, Rauna Shipunda, and the Chief Economist at the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in Swakopmund, Helvi Petrus, to offer a Small and Medium Enterprise Training on Strategic Business Planning and Business Registration. SO MANY WORDS! We did this in the Municipality's training room. This was a two day training that took place on two consecutive mornings.
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| Municipality Training Room, Swakopmund, Namibia |
This training brought together 42 small business entrepreneurs to focus on the formation of mission and vision statements, strategy building, goal-setting, action plan creation, business registration, and the sharing of SME programs offered through the MTI.
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| Municipality Training Room, Swakopmund, Namibia |
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| Rauna Shipunda, LED Officer, Swakopmund, Namibia |
In an exciting partnership between my organization (NCCI) and a local radio station (West Coast FM), all training content will be recorded and broadcast on Sundays from 4 PM - 5 PM on their business radio program. After airing, the recordings will be cataloged on a tab on their website dedicated to NCCI material. This way the content is available to any entrepreneur at any time. We're calling it Business Basics. I'll be sure to post the link as soon as the first training is up!
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| Full Training Room, Swakopmund, Namibia |
I'll throw a post up sometime again soon with a more detailed description of my job, but I did want to share what limited photos of my work that I do have.
