Training and support for entrepreneurship

During the month of August, we worked together with Sonha, Faz e Acontece (Dream, Do and it Happens), a Portuguese voluntarism and social entrepreneurship association that has been working on Principe island since 2012. In collaboration with our project, SFA brought their training and entrepreneurship support to a fishing community for the first time. Praia Burra acted as a pilot area for possible expansion to other communities. For five days, fish traders and fishers participated in entrepreneurship classes where they learned how to evaluate and grow their business in a sustainable way. The next phase will be selecting and providing technical and financial support to the three best business proposals related to the generation of income in addition to fishing or sale of fish and / or increase in revenue from fishing or selling fish.