- Youth Economic Opportunities

Creating Youth Business Acumen
and Micro-enterprise in Rural
Nicaragua
Fabretto Children’s Foundation
Mayorga Coffee Roasters
September 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
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About Fabretto
SAT Program Overview
Microenterprise & SAT
Impact Assessment
Case Studies
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ABOUT FABRETTO
History
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FABRETTO’S MISSION
To empower underserved children and their
families in Nicaragua to reach their full
potential, improve their livelihoods, and take
advantage of economic opportunity through
education and nutrition.
ABOUT FABRETTO
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SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SAT: Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial
(Tutorial Learning System)
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SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The SAT Program
• Non-formal high school
degree program
• Founded by FUNDAEC in the
1970’s
• Focus on sustainable
agriculture and rural
development
• Uses trained tutors to
facilitate learning
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SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The Need
• Just 20% of rural
Nicaraguans continue
beyond 6th grade
• SAT serves 760 students
in 40 communities
• SAT reaches a diverse,
traditionally underserved
population: young
women, young parents,
older students
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SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Methodology
• 5 competencies:
communication,
mathematics, science,
technology, and community
service
• Hands-on learning
• Develops strong values
• Fosters entrepreneurship
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SAT PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SAT Impact in 2013
760
200
enrolled SAT students
student cooperative members
22
100%
SAT small business owners
of SAT graduates are employed
or furthering education
Tinker Foundation/UPenn study
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MICROENTERPRISE
The SAT Difference:
Microenterprise
Moving from “Learn by Doing” to “Learn by Earning”
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MICROENTERPRISE
Microenterprise & SAT
Fabretto’s Goal:
Grow student businesses
and link student
producers to value chains
to contribute to rural
community development
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MICROENTERPRISE
Role of SAT
• Foster values: responsibility, organization, ethics
• Develop technical skills
• Anchor clients and link students with existing markets
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MICROENTERPRISE
Process
Learn
Practice
Purpose
Profit
Case Study: Composting
Science lesson
about
composting
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Practice
composting
techniques in
Fabretto garden
Offer compost
to local
producers
Earn money
from sale of
organic
compost
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MICROENTERPRISE
Connecting Students to Markets
• Fabretto develops relationships with buyers
• Encourage corporate social responsibility
and investment in education
• Connection with Mayorga Coffee
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MICROENTERPRISE
• We are importers, roasters, wholesalers and retailers
of sustainably grown specialty coffees.
• We have been partnering with Fabretto since 2007.
• How we begun partnering with Fabretto.
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MICROENTERPRISE
Our role in the strategic partnership with Fabretto:
• Informing consumers that that they are ultimately responsible of how an
industry behaves and that they can change it, by choosing where they
decide to spend/invest their money. As a consumer you can make a
significant difference in other people’s lives and change industry
standards.
• We translate the consumers’ choice to buy from us; we take it very
seriously that we are responsible for sourcing sustainably - both socially
and environmentally conscious decision making. There is a close link
between economic growth of local communities and maintaining
environmental health of their natural resources.
• We do this by buying coffee to craft roast from cooperatives and small
agricultural producers whom are fostering growth in their local
communities, empowering women and youths with education and
nutrition. Coffee serves as a substantial tool for empowerment and
development of the producing communities.
• Creating a stable market for agricultural producers to continue their trade
with confidence and without reservations of not being able to sell their
products in local markets.
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MICROENTERPRISE
Partnering with Fabretto allows us to concentrate on what we do
best: roasting, marketing, and engaging consumers. Meanwhile,
Fabretto can gain funding from sales and do what they do best,
creating growth in key points of developing communities.
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MICROENTERPRISE
Our Sourcing Model, which allows us to compensate producers
fairly, while still allowing Mayorga Coffee to keep competitive
pricing:
FARMER
MILL
ROASTER
RETAILER
CONSUMER
FINANCING/RISK
MANAGEMENT
OPEN COMMUNICATION & SHARED VALUES BETWEEN ALL PARTICIPANTS
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MICROENTERPRISE
Creating future opportunities with Fabretto:
Coffee is just one of many tools to help underprivileged communities.
We are adapting the same values, sourcing principles, and sourcing
model to other agricultural products; teas, chia seeds, cacao, honey,
bee pollen, X-product.
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What next..
Selling handmade Pine needle baskets, made by
women in the Cusmapa community, in our retail stores
for example, creates an additional marketplace to
generate second incomes for these women and their
families. Aside from the monetary benefit, young
women grow confidence in themselves, which helps
them assume more prominent roles in their
communities and in their personal lives.
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MICROENTERPRISE
Creating future opportunities with Fabretto:
Continuing to grow as a company = continued growth for Fabretto
and more funding of important youth development projects…
Portions of our proceeds are donated to Fabretto to invest where
they see best fit.
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IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Impact Assessment
• Measure Progress in Poverty
Index (PPI)
• Current stage: collecting
large-scale baseline
information
• Data will be collected yearly
to trace changes in behavior,
health, income generation,
and overall community
development to student
economic activity
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Moving Forward
• Provide access to credit
• Use student knowledge to build
community production capacity
Example: Students learn about soil sampling;
apply knowledge to improve organic
fertilizers
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CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
Coffee
• 5 de Junio Cooperative
founded June 5, 2001
• 300 producers
• 20 students and families
produce organic compost
• Partnership with
Mayorga Coffee to
produce and sell School
Grounds coffee
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CASE STUDIES
Honey
• Buyer: Inglemann Exporter
(to Europe)
• 5 Fabretto youth producers
• Work with coffee
cooperative
• In April 2013, sale of first
90 kilos of honey
• 3 of the student
beekeepers in Cusmapa
make $200/month profit
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CASE STUDIES
Tabasco Chili Peppers
• Chiles de Nicaragua
S.A., a key supplier to
the McIlhenny Company
• Collaboration began
June 2012
• 5 producers
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CASE STUDIES
Pineapple & Dragonfruit
• Connection to Burke Agro
to produce organic
pineapple and dragon fruit
• Dried fruit product sold
under Sol Simple brand in
U.S.
• Example of corporate
social responsibility and a
large company integrating
small producers into valueadded chain and export
market
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Questions and
Comments
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