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Delivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 1 Training

18 September 20266 March 2013
A street cobbler at his pitch in front of his new banner, Islamabad, 2013. Face blurred.

A video of day 1 of PTP’s business growth programme for street cobblers, taken from the training recordings the team uses to improve delivery.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity, Pilot Project, Poverty Alleviation Tags business growth, cobblers, economic development, Micro enterprise, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers, WHAM

Letting Change speak for its self

18 September 202617 February 2013
A young street cobbler at work among shoes in Pakistan, 2013. Faces blurred.

Video interviews with street cobblers from the second cohort, recorded a month after they finished the PTP business growth programme.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity, Pilot Project, Poverty Alleviation Tags business growth, economic development, Micro enterprise, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers

We knew it was never going to be easy

18 September 202631 January 2013
A street cobbler holding a sandal in his stall, Pakistan, 2013. Face blurred.

In November 2012 PTP lost a cohort of 30 street cobblers in Rawalpindi after a delegate made extortionate demands, and learned to keep cohorts small.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation, Uncategorized Tags Brutus, business growth, economic development, Micro enterprise, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers

Diary log following the very first Business Growth Workshop for Street Cobblers

18 September 202620 November 2012
A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

Track the journey of business growth. Gain insights and strategies to accelerate your entrepreneurial endeavors for lasting success.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Peace Through Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation Tags business growth, economic development, Micro enterprise, Pakistan, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers

Word from Dara Adam Khel

18 September 202614 October 2012
A hand-stitching awl of the kind street cobblers use

A video interview with a young professional from Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on life, Taliban recruitment and poverty, after the October 2012 bombing.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity Tags Darra Adam Khel, economic development, KPK, Malala Yousafzai, Micro enterprise, Pakistan, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Taliban, youth bulge

Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test log

18 September 20264 October 2012
A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

Field test log from 3 to 7 September 2012: four street cobblers attended five evening sessions on business planning, marketing, pricing and record keeping.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity Tags business growth, economic development, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers, youth bulge

Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test

18 September 202623 September 2012
A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

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.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity, Pilot Project Tags business growth, economic development, Micro enterprise, Peace, poverty, Poverty Alleviation, street cobblers, Timpson group, youth bulge

Standing on the shoulders of a giant!

18 September 202617 August 2012
A Peace Through Prosperity visit to the Timpson academy

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.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Peace Through Prosperity Tags cobblers, cutting edge, economic development, Micro enterprise, Pakistan, Peace, Poverty Alleviation, shoe repair, Timpson group, United Kingdom

A peek into the life of a street cobbler in Pakistan

18 September 20261 August 2012
A street cobbler at work in his shop, Pakistan, 2013. Face blurred.

A video of interviews with street cobblers in Haripur, drawn from the 400+ interviews recorded in the pilot stage of PTP’s Cobbler (Mochee) Project.

Categories Micro Entrepreneurs, Mochee Project, Uncategorized Tags business growth, economic development, Micro enterprise, Pakistan, poverty, Poverty Alleviation
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