Malin Akerman and Friends Support The Entrepreneur School

In Nicaragua, less than 10% of rural youth graduates high school and less than 30% complete sixth grade. When a child leaves school at age 11, she has yet to master basic reading, writing and math, and virtually no employable skills. In the second most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, this is a huge problem. Opportunity has established a rural technical school that teaches a traditional high school curriculum along with hands-on instruction in entrepreneurship in some of the region’s fast-growing industries of tourism and agriculture. By teaching skills suited to their local economy, young people are prepared to start or be gainfully employed by a local business or continue on to university. The region will be transformed in the long term as these entrepreneurs learn technological skills, as well as self-sufficiency, flexibility, problem-solving, and to use resources effectively.