Diary log following the very first Business Growth Workshop for Street Cobblers
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Peace Through Prosperity
Word from Dara Adam Khel
A video interview with a young professional from Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on life, Taliban recruitment and poverty, after the October 2012 bombing.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test log
Field test log from 3 to 7 September 2012: four street cobblers attended five evening sessions on business planning, marketing, pricing and record keeping.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test
In September 2012 PTP field-tested version 1.1 of its Business Growth Manual, then in Urdu, with four street cobblers over five two-hour evening sessions.
Standing on the shoulders of a giant!
How the Timpson group opened its shoe repair training to Peace Through Prosperity in 2012, and what its trainers changed about a street cobbler’s toolkit.
Geographical Area Covered for the pilot of the Cobbler/Mochee Project
PTP’s cobbler pilot covered Rawalpindi and Chichawatni in Punjab and Haripur and Darra Adam Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where surveys were seized in 2012.
Demographics of Street Cobblers Surveyed – Their age range
PTP’s 2012 pilot survey of street cobblers found 47.39% were aged 12 to 28 and 70.14% were aged 12 to 40, reflecting Pakistan’s youth bulge.
The Mochee Project (Street Cobbler Project)
An outline of the Mochee Project for street cobblers in Pakistan, after surveys in Chichawatni, Rawalpindi, Haripur and Darra Adam Khel.
Why street cobblers?
Why PTP chose street cobblers: one cobbler’s story from Haripur and a pilot survey of 444 cobblers in four areas of Pakistan that shaped the project.