Some are expelled for academic failure, some do not stand the pace, and this is understandable - 40 exams in 17 weeks. And the participants of this program is really engaged with great zeal, and they really want to change your life.
Under this program, inmates learn how to make business plans, budgets, and conduct market research. The program collaborates with the Harvard Business School and the known top managers of large companies. The results of translating the program PEP impressive. 43 and 370 graduates start their own business.
Among these success stories - a man who served 10 years for trafficking in cocaine, and now formed his company pruned trees, the annual turnover is more than $ 1 million.
The following example - a prisoner who has served 30 years for murder and was released in 55 years, established his business on purses, belts and artwork from the skin.
Another graduate of the program PEP - Troy, who was sitting behind the drug trade, from childhood can not imagine another life without drugs and violence. But after the conclusion of the course and program it completely changed my view of life and the world. He chose a different path. Now he opened his own car repair shop in Houston.
PEP program really opens up the world of business to the former detainees, it does give a necessary and quality knowledge to help you become a successful entrepreneur, but the most important thing - it gives them a chance at another life, a chance to succeed, the chance for real freedom.
On materials: BBC World Service
Interesting materials online:
- Six companies of the giant, born during the crisis
- A new model of capitalism is the XXI century
- Artem Maynas about earnings with your blog