Haripur – one to one coaching for entrepreneurs of circumstance

A Peace Through Prosperity coaching visit to a participant’s business in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013. Faces blurred.

A short post on one-to-one coaching and consulting for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with two photographs from coaching visits (faces blurred).

Haripur (KPK) – progress report

Participants at the close of a mini-MBA cohort in Haripur, Pakistan

Two mini-MBA cohorts in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa took in 70 street cobblers against a budget for 50, ending in a graduation and plans for a cobblers’ union.

Day 4 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 1)

Participants at a Peace Through Prosperity mini-MBA class in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013 (cohort 1, day 4). Faces blurred.

Day 4 of the mini-MBA for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, covered finance and financial planning, and participants received sales ledgers.

Day 3 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 1)

A Peace Through Prosperity mini-MBA class in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013 (cohort 1, day 3). Faces blurred.

A short post on day 3 of the first mini-MBA cohort for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a photograph from the class (faces blurred).

Day 2 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 1)

A participant at a Peace Through Prosperity mini-MBA class in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013 (cohort 1, day 2). Face blurred.

A short post on day 2 of the mini-MBA for street cobblers in Haripur, delivered by the PTP team, with two photographs from the class (faces blurred).

Haripur, KPK – Cohort 1 mini-MBA program

A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

PTP spent a week building trust with street cobblers and local leaders in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, then started the first five-day mini-MBA on 9 September.

Feature in Cutting Edge – UK’s trade magazine for Today’s Shoe Repairer

A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

Cutting Edge, the UK trade magazine for shoe repairers, featured the PTP street cobbler project in the same fortnight the Haripur project began.

Project Haripur is off the ground and we are running on fumes

The mini-MBA participant pack: the Business Growth Manual in Urdu, a notebook and pen, thread and a cobbler’s awl

PTP started its Haripur project with a first cohort of 30 street cobblers and a welcome pack including an Urdu sales ledger and business growth manual.

Impact of the wrong kind of government interventions

Peace Through Prosperity staff talking with villagers in Muzaffargarh, Punjab, 2013. Faces blurred.

What the Capital Development Authority’s clean and green Islamabad campaign did to street traders, including a cobbler whose revenue had grown 200%.

Impact of our mini-MBA program on Livelihoods – Atta-Ullah

Ptp Mini, a mini-MBA participant, at their business in Pakistan

Atta Ullah, 26, a street cobbler at Tariq Market, F-10/2, Islamabad, supports four dependants and was in the third mini-MBA cohort. Includes his growth data.