Watching Our Future Magnates at Work in JUNIOR PRENEUR

Colorful balloons, delicious cupcakes, sweet candies, and hordes of toys were what welcomed us when we reached the venue.  Though it sounds like we went to a fun party, it was actually a bazaar we went to.  The atmosphere was so festive that it did seem like we were in a children’s party.

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On November 10, our brood of four trooped to Tiendesitas to check out Junior Preneur, a bazaar that encouraged children to be entrepreneurs and taught them the value of hard work.   Little entrepreneurs wearing yellow shirts were quite busy manning their respective booths and encouraging shoppers to try their products.

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The first booth my kids took a liking to was Sebastian’s Sweets.  There were several other booths that offered decorate-your-own cupcakes but this was the first one that we saw.  Jade and Jakei sprinkled their respective cupcakes with different treats – and happily ate them after.  Oh, and they also gave them a tiara and a superman wrist band that my two little troopers absolutely loved!

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While checking out the various booths, we saw these little girls going around the bazaar and selling their sweet treats.  Now that’s what you call active marketing!

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Our little ones were also drawn to this booth, D’Cousins Boothing-things,  that sold various trinkets.  What caught their attention were these plastic eyeglass frames that had flashing lights.  Even Jakei pleaded to have the green one even if we told him they were for girls.  He insisted that it was green and that green is for boys. 😛  We went around the bazaar several more times and whenever we passed this booth, the cousins were always busy talking to a shopper.  Naturally, they received the Block Buster Award and the FMCG Award for their other product, Buko Master.

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To entertain shoppers,  and the little entrepreneurs as well, Junior Preneur arranged a program full of exciting activities for all those in the bazaar.  We arrived late and missed some of the shows and activities which included a Pet Show by the Zoomanity group.  We did catch a performance by a little girl and a few games though.

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It was while we were watching one of these shows that a little girl – Moiraine as we later found out – handed me a business card.  My ever curious princess Jade asked what the little girl handed me and I showed it to her.  A short while after, she tugged at my hand and asked if she could see the dresses.  Apparently, this was what she read in the card, “Purple: Dresses & Dresses for Cutie Kids to Pretty ladies.”   And, mind you, she knew exactly where the booth was coz she had been watching what Moraine had been doing.   So off we went to the booth where she asked for a purple dress (see pic below). Purple will also be at a bazaar in UP Diliman on November 23-24.  Do take your little prinsesses with you and get pretty dresses at affordable prices. 😀

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While waiting for the awarding ceremony to start, we chanced upon Xsight Fotografia‘s photobooth and had a couple of pics taken.  Aside from photobooth set-ups, they also offer photo and video coverages for events.

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Junior Preneur culminated with an awarding ceremony to acknowledge all the hard work the young ones and their parents did.  All the little entrepreneurs were given certificates for participating in the 1-day Business Entrepreneurship Exercise.  Special awards were also given to those who did exceptionally well in the bazaar.

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Congratulations to CRISTA for winning the CEO Award and HEART CRAFTS for the Megabrand Award!

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For their spectacular booth design, PIK ‘N KIP won the Stand Out Award

 

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The biggest winners at the bazaar – D’ COUSINS! Hanna Sophia Sanoza(12), Haedi Ysabel Sanoza(10), and Naomi Myllae Ofilando(9) bagged two awards: Block Buster Award for D’COUSINS BOOTHING-THINGS and FMCG Award for BUKO MASTER.

Judging from the happy faces of the children in the bazaar and my own children’s behaviour after,  I would say that Junior Preneur was successful in its primary objective to stir entrepreneurship in children.  The very next day, my little girl placed some of her toys in a bucket and proceeded to our door where she began calling out, “Toys, toys, toys for sale!”  Oh yeah, my four-year-old’s entrepreneurial spirit was definitely stirred.  And she hasn’t stopped asking me to get our own store. 😀

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Cherry Saculo, Director of Junior Preneur, is quite satisfied with the outcome of the bazaar and intends to organize more activities to increase financial literacy in the Philippines by teaching the children the importance and value of money, hard work, saving for the future, and social responsibility.    Through the first Junior Preneur bazaar, parents and children all learned valuable lessons from the time they conceptualized their products, set-up their booths, and marketed their products.  Hopefully, parents will continue to support their kids’ penchant for business as we all want to see them work their way to being the future magnates of our country.

Junior Preneur is already lining up a series of activities to help our young entrepreneurs in their journey to success.  For more information about these events, visit http://www.facebook.com/JuniorPreneur or http://juniorpreneur.org/.



JUNIOR PRENEUR: Pursuit in Entrepreneurship for Young Minds

Have you heard of the OFW Reintegration Program where the government provides grants to OFWs to enable them to start their own businesses here in the country so there would be no need for them to work abroad? How about the One-Town One-Product (OTOP) Program which provides assistance to small and medium enterprises? These are just a couple of government programs geared towards promoting entrepreneurship to improve living standards and to ignite economic growth in the country.

Entrepreneurs are of significant economic value to our country and not only contribute to economic growth but also provide employment opportunities to many others. Its role in creating a strong economy is why entrepreneurship is being greatly promoted now.

Stir the entrepreneurial spirit in your children by teaching them how to earn money in their own little ways. Selling homemade cookies or repacked candies may be a good start for those still in grade school. Expose them also to activities where they can learn and be trained to be excellent businessmen. Who knows where this opportunity could lead to? This may be the start of their journey into becoming a very successful entrepreneur in the future. If they do, you must remember to tell them to get in touch with a marketing website that can help them to build their own site as well as helping their business to continue to grow with the use of SEO and social media (to name a few). And all of this can start by taking part in a Government program.

One such event is the JUNIOR PRENEUR where kids can be entrepreneurs even for just a day. This exercise in entrepreneurship for young minds provides an early training, much like a practicum, for young children to hone the skills they have learned in school. This bazaar will also be a good venue for teaching children the value of hard work.

If your child has already shown business acumen this early, support him and get him his own booth at the Junior Preneur. Let your child come up with the concept or unique theme for his own 2x3m booth. Be there at the People’s Village Tiendesitas on November 10, 2012 from 12:00-8:00pm and watch him make some profit. He may even win one of these special awards: Most Visited booth, Best in Booth design, Most unique concept and Highest sales booth.

Join Junior Preneur and let your child learn how to: earn, save, and donate to charity!

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For updates, LIKE Junior Preneur on http://www.facebook.com/JuniorPreneur

Booth Spaces are priced at P5,000 and P3,000 depending on Location and Size. Last few booths are priced at P1,000 NOW Originally at P3,000 and P1,500 NOW Originally at P5,000

For Interested Parties for booth Reservation, please call the Secretariat office at 404-5736 (Mondays-Saturdays) 10-4pm or email [email protected]. You may also visit www.juniorpreneur.org for more information.