The partnership between the Genesis Foundation, Fundación Promigas and la Corporación Acción por Atlántico-Actuar Famiempresas was created with the goal of providing teenagers in 10^th and 11^th grade in Baranquilla with the tools to become entrepreneurs and enhance their future work opportunities.

Fundación Promigas is a foundation committed to processes of social development that promote quality elementary education as well as economic and social progress of Colombia’s Caribbean coast. La Coporación Acción por Atlántico-Actuar Famiempresas is a private-nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote small businesses known as “Famiempresas.” The organization’s ultimate goal is to generate jobs in the hope of combating poverty, unemployment, and the violence in the Atlantic areas.  Actuar seeks to accomplish its goal through the implementation of its strategy of capacity-building, credit-consultations, and commercialization.

This partnership between Promigas, Actuar and Genesis seeks to foster the students’ job skills and promote their entrepreneurial mentality with relevant training in the formation of micro-enterprises. The individual institutions have also committed themselves to this project by providing the space to carry out food production, beauty, and crafts workshops.  This also permits the teaching staff to gain these skills as well, thereby ensuring the sustainability of the workshops in the future. The final feature of the project is the creation of a credit fund that supports the best student projects.

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