Young Entrepreneurs Emerge from Training in Tanzania 
Before attending the U.S. Department of Labor-funded TEACH program's vocational agriculture training course in Songabele, Sara Daudi, Francesca Jona Mkukmo, Petro Asman, Ana Samson and Lucia Yona worked long hours in hazardous conditions with little or no pay. But with the guidance of their trainer, Edward Makkndi, the five Tanzanian teens decided to to start a poultry production business together and escape such abusive forms of labor. 

During the course, the group learned about feeding management, health care and vaccination, and how to organize the raising area. They started the small poultry production plant while they were still in the class, in order to benefit from the trainer's advice and guidance as they began. Makkndi even contributed to the start-up phase by providing the first two chickens. 

After only four months in business, the group has more than three dozen chickens, and selling just a few will allow them to invest in feeding equipment, food and medicine for the poultry. After the number of chickens redoubles, they will begin selling them again, and plan to diversify their business by using profits from chicken sales to buy piglets. While pigs generate more income, raising them is a bigger investment and the return isn't as immediate, therefore they are waiting to have better financial foundations to start. The TEACH training program has not only given this group of young entrepreneurs the skills to succeed, it has also given them the confidence that they can develop their own business and generate income for their families. 

USAID/Nepal's EIG Program, World Food Program Take Integrated Approach to Fish Pond Construction 
The USAID/Nepal-funded Education for Income Generation (EIG) program has collaborated with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help marginalized youth gain access to land, build fish ponds, receive training and access markets ultimately leading to sustainable income generation.

Winrock International and its partners developed local user groups, helping secure long-term leases between the landless youth and the landowners. With 400 fish ponds being built, the WFP is providing food to compensate the workers, distributing 4 kg of rice per day for the workers, who can work for up to 40 days to receive a maximum of 160 kg. At 500 square meters each, the fish pond project will ensure that all 2,800 households have an opportunity to benefit from the food for work program. EIG also trained 400 disadvantaged youth to raise fish and high-value horticulture products on the pond dikes and berms, as well as marketing training to sell the products in Nepalgunj.