Outreach. Redefined.
The poor don’t need charity. They need someone to help them use the gifts God has given them. Paradigm Shift trains volunteers teams to provide a holistic economic development outreach targeting microentrepreneurs working themselves out of poverty.
The One-Day Business Experience Course is the foundation for transforming impoverished communities and opens the door for discipleship.
Any church, business forum or small group can provide this simple, effective outreach. With just six qualified volunteers, you can get started!
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It’s a fun, fast paced eight-hour business training that takes entrepreneurs on a journey of exploring basic business skills.
Through peer-learning, games, participatory exercises, and structured discussions, your volunteer team of six unpacks learning for adult microentrepreneurs in a way that is highly relevant and immediately applicable.
What? You’ve never been a part of an economic development outreach as a way of of serving the poor? Don’t worry, neither has a vast majority of our volunteers.
The entire course has been created to be used by volunteers like you!
The programme materials include:
- Volunteer Team Training DVD
- Verbatim Curriculum Scripts
- Curriculum Kit including props and 80 re-usable full-colour visuals
- Entrepreneur Certificates
- Marketing Templates
- Resource CD
With this, you can successfully run the One-Day Business Experience Course! This gives you, the volunteer team, the confidence and framework to use your own business experience and skills to uplift others.
At the end of the course, each entrepreneur receives a certificate of business training. Your team forges new friendships while overcoming social, economic and racial boundaries.
The One-Day Business Experience Course has been created with a volunteer team in mind. Paradigm Shift gives your team all the tools, training and materials needed to have a lasting impact with microentrepreneurs. This is the starting point on a journey of addressing physical and spiritual poverty in your surrounding community.
- A team of six trainers with business knowledge and experience
- A free Saturday(s)
- A training venue
- A target community
- A desire to coach entrepreneurs in small business skills
- An ability to prayerfully disciple others in faith
Get Started
Fill out the form below and hit submit. Our team will be in touch and help you launch a successful programme! If you are outside of South Africa visit our Beyond South Africa page.
“As a South African church surrounded by a community in need of social, economic, as well as spiritual renewal, we had a dream to empower entrepreneurs to earn a living while being discipled at the same time. The Paradigm Shift programme has helped us realise that dream.”
"We used to think our businesses were cursed because they failed. Now we realize we just didn't have the knowledge."
"Nearby Common Ground are multiple communities in need of economic renewal. We knew we as the church could change poverty if we coupled good development practices with biblical discipleship. The Paradigm Shift program has equipped us to make a meaningful impact in our city and for the kingdom of heaven."
