120 schoolchildren became participants of the charity fair in Kazan

The charity fair of the republican project "School Business Start" opened today in Kazan. Young entrepreneurs from all over the republic presented their products — handmade Christmas decorations, homemade gingerbread, candles, dolls, soft toys, sweets and original interior items.

Students of grades 5-7 became participants of the program. Services and goods from 120 children from different parts of Tatarstan were presented at the site. At the same time, students will direct part of the proceeds to the treatment of their peer, 11—year-old Arthur, who is a ward of the charitable non-profit organization "Good Kazan".

The project has already received a lot of positive feedback from both teachers and children and their parents. The training program is very rich. Master classes and trainings are held for schoolchildren, where various experts, including entrepreneurs, act as speakers.

This year, more than 11 thousand schoolchildren from cities and districts of the republic became participants in the School Business Start project. For two months, the participants were trained in the format of a business game to draw up a portrait of an entrepreneur, passed special testing, and also presented their own projects, developed a business plan and a PR campaign.

At the end, 600 participants presented their projects to expert entrepreneurs. The students who have passed the test take part in a charity school fair. After the selection, the teams will go to the business case championship, which will be held in February 2024.

Elena Tikhonova recalled that the final meeting of school business companies is scheduled for April 2024. The winners will travel to Moscow and visit the Skolkovo Technopark.

"Children have the opportunity to implement projects that are in demand and interesting to them. The project reflects the entire range of entrepreneurial activity in the republic. They have a chance to develop the real sector of the economy, the guys get sales skills, production organization skills. They are told about the support measures they can receive when registering themselves as self–employed," added the Head of the Entrepreneurship Development Department of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of TatarstanMaria Sukhovaya.

The School Business Start program is being implemented on behalf of the Rais of the Republic of Tatarstan with the support of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan within the framework of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship and Support for individual Entrepreneurial Initiative" and the My Business Center of the Entrepreneurship Support Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan.

National projects have been implemented since 2019 by decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.