Students in Free Entreprise

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Three teams have won the SIFE regional competition in Bishkek. They are:

• The Technological University of Tajikistan-Khujand
  
• The Kyrgyz American School
  
• Kazak State University

The first international regional competition of the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization to be held out of the United States was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on March 20, 1996. The Central Asian SIFE program is sponsoring the competition for eleven teams from universities in Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The top finalist teams will come to the US to compete with other teams in May, 1996.

CA SIFE is a student generated program which has sparked the competitive spirit of university students in Central Asia. SIFE is a partnership between business and higher education to help students respond directly to the needs of their communities. SIFE enables students to acquire strong communication skills, team building and management skills by doing outreach projects which provide a balance between the social responsibility of business and profits in an open market system. The completed projects were presented to a panel of 20 judges from the business and educational communities.

The outreach projects are limited only by the students imaginations and this year include:

• starting school newspapers,
• student governments,
• feeding and marketing cattle,
• business education programs on television,
• outreach to help families with many children by donating clothes and helping the teenagers with job skills,
• seminars at secondary schools, and
• business information data bases

This competition would not have been possible without the volunteer work of many people in the three Central Asian countries and in the US. This has been a cooperative effort on a regional and international level which has spanned the boundaries of nationalism. The enthusiasm and ingenuity of the student teams has been infectious. For further details contact the following:

Betty Hutchinson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[email protected] and

Robin Anderson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[email protected]

Aida Kalymbetova
Kazak Institute of Economics, Management and Strategic Research
[email protected]

Camilla Sharshekeeva
Kyrgyz American School
[email protected]

Kasim Islamov
Tajik Center for Entrepreneurship and Management
[email protected]

Pulat Pulatov
Technological University of Tajikistan
[email protected]

Last updated:    April 1996

A print version of much of the information contained in this NIS Third Sector Organizations section can be found in the The Post-Soviet Handbook (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999).

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