street cobblers

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

A Peace Through Prosperity mini-MBA class in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2013 (cohort 2, day 2). Faces blurred.

A short post on day 2 of the second mini-MBA cohort for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a photograph from the class (faces blurred).

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

An Urdu banner advertising the five-day mini-MBA for street cobblers in Haripur, 2013

The second and last mini-MBA cohort for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa began on Monday 16 September 2013 and ran for five days.

Day 5 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 1)

A Peace Through Prosperity programme photograph

Day 5 closed the first Haripur mini-MBA cohort for street cobblers, bringing the lessons together and handing out stools for cobblers and their customers.

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%.