Young Entrepreneur Sri Lanka (YESL)

Website: http://www.youngentrepreneurssl.org
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Tel: +94 11 281 5162
Adress: 47B Railway Avenue, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

About
YESL is a non-profit organization, financed by businesses, foundations and individuals, to educate and inspire young children from primary school through high school to value free enterprise, understand Business and Economics, to be self-dependant, be workforce ready, be job-creators instead of job-seekers. Programs are modelled after the Global Junior Achievement programs.

Program description:
High school programmes are economic and business curricula for Grade 10 to 13 students, which include a student led enterprise a true to life Business Company. Company Programme impacts students quality of life. GLOBE (Global Learning of the Business Enterprise) pairs high school students from two different nations to form joint venture import/ export companies. Students gain insight into cultural differences, language barriers, and communication. TTBiz (Travel and Tourism Business ) is a web based programme consisting  of Classroom and field activities that teach students how to start an actual tourism-related small business. MESE ( Management and Economic Simulation Exercise) provides students with the challenge of operating their own companies in a competitive environment that simulates the real business world. Students can participate in a “hands- on” approach to strategic decision- making.

Participants:
Students 13-18 years of age in partner schools.

 

Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL)

Website: http://www.ybsl.lk
Contact: Mr. Sujeewa Ratnakumara, National Program Manager
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Tel: +94  11 558 8884
Adress: YBSL Secretariat, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, 50 Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka

About
In 2007 Youth Business Sri Lanka was formed with the leadership of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Hambantota District Chamber of Commerce (HDCC). It was developed as a result of the success of the Hambantota Youth Business Trust (HYBT), an entrepreneur support programme which started operations in 1997 with the backing of HDCC.

Program description
The Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL) programme supports youth to start a business through provision of concessionary credit facilities and associating a mature and experienced individual who provides business mentor support voluntarily. This mentoring approach has been very effective in sustaining the newly started business as going concerns, because it is at the beginning the youth entrepreneurs needs business advices most. The mentoring approach also inculcates a certain responsibility to the programme, thereby facilitating the credit recovery.

Participants:
YBC include the young people who are aged between 18-35 years old, currently  and have a passion to be entrepreneur. Applicants have an available business idea or plan but lack business experience or knowledge.

Participants:
Applicants need submit the application form and business plan in YBC website. (YBC provide the templates). Application on a rolling base.