MYZARA aims to provide a quality educational program to rural secondary schoolers. The idea is to find a nice way to package careers in agriculture, to make it appealing to the youth; as with Madagascar, our country’s great potential in agriculture sector, we should invest in it.In collaboration with existing secondary schools, we will take agriculture to school through extracurricular platformand will mold critical thinkers who are potential future entrepreneurs. Through this program students will gain entrepreneurial thinking, identify business opportunities, and learn the skills to start a business. Besides, it will help them see agriculture as a viable livelihood option; they will also get an opportunity to experience agriculture in a very hands-on way. We will have session twice a week, our volunteer teachers are highly trained and modern teaching methods will be used to enable the students to connect school to the world they live in.
The main impact we expect to see is those students will be equipped with an outstandard knowledge and skills that allow them to effectively and productively use recourses in their location and that they will be also able to coach their families and peers who are out of school. In addition to that, given that agriculture has been the mainstay of many living in rural areas, investment in the agricultural sector will be an effective means to lift community out of poverty.
This program will implement agricultural entrepreneurship which will empower communities then that will contribute to economic development.
What is more, by promoting agricultural entrepreneurship, it may be a way to address multiple economic and social issues, such as youth unemployment or underemployment, lack of access to the profitable market, and internal migration from rural to urban areas.