I started off the week by having a more formal meeting with Dr. Blau and the Human Rights Center. We talked more about the potential for having information sessions at the center and she gave me some pretty invaluable suggestions on components that would make the workshops meaningful to our potential participants. If everything goes smoothly, these info sessions will start happening during the week of June 14th.
The past week also included several curriculum development workdays. With all of our materials to draw from, we finalized the framework for the workshop series and began to put together the materials for the first of the six trainings. Here is the outline for the different workshops:
-Week 1: Orientation and Inspiration
-Week 2: Products/Services & Customers
-Week 3: Pricing
-Week 4: Marketing
-Week 5: Bookkeeping
-Week 6: Legal Management and Presentations
Most of the first workshop is based on the presentation of successful small businesses as case studies. In general each example is first explained and then various questions are posed to the workshop participants such as "How should he/she set his/her prices?" The ultimate goal is to try and ask questions that relate to the general themes of the remaining lessons so we can determine what to focus on as we move further along.
Starting this week, we are beginning our massive translation effort. As much of the materials we have are only in English, we will need to translate the education materials, forms, and worksheets. Also, we're starting our "community office hours" this week. This essentially means that in order to recruit participants for the program, members of the project team are going to start volunteering at places such as The Human Rights Center, and Bread Ministry to start getting the word out about the workshops. Until next time!
Saludos,
Ben
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