WGSS25: Creating Social Enterprises with Marginalized Ugandan Youth
Teams of Williams students have been working for several years now in Uganda to empower groups of HIV+ youth there in their activism against the AIDS pandemic and the underlying issues of poverty, inequality and social marginalization. Over the last two years we have been focusing on building a network of training and support for the creation of social enterprises to be run by groups of marginalized youth. This year we will take the next step: a smaller group of Williams students will go to Uganda to learn and teach about worker-owned cooperatives and work with our Ugandan partners to open their own worker-owned business.
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Week 1 of our trip will include a training program in Kampala, jointly taught by the Williams group and our Ugandan collaborators, including visits to existing co-ops and lectures from local experts on mentoring social enterprises. For week 2 we will divide into small groups to develop proposals and business plans for creating new co-ops. The entire team will then vote on a proposal to move forward with. During week 3 the groundwork for a particular co-op will begin, building the experience that, over the next two years, will help develop a Kampala co-op incubator with the capacity to create and mentor future co-ops as social enterprises for marginalized youth. In our down time we will have a chance to view some of Uganda’s natural beauty and wildlife, as well as moving around Kampala, a vibrant East African hub.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Evaluation will be based on student journals and participation throughout the class.
ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 8
METHOD OF SELECTION: Students will be chosen through an application form and interview.
ESTIMATED COST: $3,650 including flights.
INSTRUCTOR: Kiaran Honderich
Teams of Williams students have been working for several years now in Uganda to empower groups of HIV+ youth there in their activism against the AIDS pandemic and the underlying issues of poverty, inequality and social marginalization. Over the last two years we have been focusing on building a network of training and support for the creation of social enterprises to be run by groups of marginalized youth. This year we will take the next step: a smaller group of Williams students will go to Uganda to learn and teach about worker-owned cooperatives and work with our Ugandan partners to open their own worker-owned business.
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Week 1 of our trip will include a training program in Kampala, jointly taught by the Williams group and our Ugandan collaborators, including visits to existing co-ops and lectures from local experts on mentoring social enterprises. For week 2 we will divide into small groups to develop proposals and business plans for creating new co-ops. The entire team will then vote on a proposal to move forward with. During week 3 the groundwork for a particular co-op will begin, building the experience that, over the next two years, will help develop a Kampala co-op incubator with the capacity to create and mentor future co-ops as social enterprises for marginalized youth. In our down time we will have a chance to view some of Uganda’s natural beauty and wildlife, as well as moving around Kampala, a vibrant East African hub.
METHOD OF EVALUATION: Evaluation will be based on student journals and participation throughout the class.
ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 8
METHOD OF SELECTION: Students will be chosen through an application form and interview.
ESTIMATED COST: $3,650 including flights.
INSTRUCTOR: Kiaran Honderich
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