Last Friday saw five Achievers International schools
participating in a Young Entrepreneurs Market held on the Southbank in London. The event
featured 50 stalls selling a variety of products, but it was the Achievers
stalls which proved to be popular with customers as they offered products from
around the world.
Sunbury Manor School,
Bridgend College,
The Charter School and St Neot's Preparatory School came from around the UK to trade their products and they were even
joined by students from Gesamtschule Petershagen in Germany who travelled over
especially for the event.
Despite the wet start to the day, there was a buzz
in the air as students set up their stalls and started selling a wide variety
of products. Sunbury Manor School
sold handmade jewellery imported form their partner school based in the
rainforest in Ecuador; Bridgend College
sold handmade goods from bracelets to bags imported form their partners in Ghana.
St Neot's sold handmade scarves imported form their
partners in Dubai and the Charter
School sold clothing they were
intending to export to their partners in the USA. Gesamtschule Petershagen had a
wide range of sweet and savoury food items from East Germany which sold well.
The event was reported on by BBC World Service on
their World Today business news bulletin which you can hear highlights from
below as well as see a slideshow of pictures from the event. You can also read
more about the partnership between Sunbury
Manor School
and Yachana Technical
High School in Ecuador in this article on BBC World Class.
The public who attended also had the opportunity to vote on our Global
Entrepreneurship Week Poster Competition, which you can read more about here.
Well done to all the schools who attended the event for their hard work in
preparing their stalls, all of which looked very professional! It was a great
way to finish Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.
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