Income Generation Through Vegetable Gardening For Naura Secondary School Form Four Business Students In Lemara Ward, Arusha District

Urioh, Daniel (2017) Income Generation Through Vegetable Gardening For Naura Secondary School Form Four Business Students In Lemara Ward, Arusha District. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study focus on income generating project for Naura Secondary school form four business class in Lemara ward Arusha district, with the aim of introducing and apply entrepreneurship skills for students and encourage then to creating their own income, manage it and invest it while they still young. As the idea chosen by the students is Vegetable production within the school area, that become the project, located in Naura Secondary school. Community need assessment was conducted to help the students identifying their major need and deciding what kind of project will be sufficient to that need. The research also identified that other important community needs are access to capital, of income generating activity and capacity building for form four business class students. The focus group discussion conducted revealed that the need of substitute income generating activity is the priority number one since some students have the other sources of income. The implementation of this project aimed at achieving the objectives of training 50 students on entrepreneurship skills and vegetable production techniques, after getting the skills students they will be able to produce more than 5,000 grams of vegetables each month and sell it to the community, surely the project generate income. When the monitoring and evaluation was conducted, it was revealed that all these objectives are achievable given the good organization of the students whereby their cooperative is supervised by themselves and the business class teacher. Activities were being carried as planned and on good track. Also the Monitoring and Evaluation activities have proven that project enjoys institutional, financial political sustainability, and developmental sustainability

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