VTI Green Town, Lahore won British Council South Asian Region “Enterprise
Entrepreneur Award” - 2011.
The National Enterprise Award competition took place in 2010. In which British
Council with collaboration of YES network Pakistan approached 400 colleges in
all major cities of Pakistan and interacted about 1000 students and 400 teachers
with the concept of Social Entrepreneurship. As a result of this interaction
British Council received 400 project proposals from entire country.
The expert of British Council in Pakistan short listed 09 teams and they
arranged competition among these 09 teams in Amir Hotel Lahore on Dec, 10, 2010
and VTI Green Town Team won this competition and Declared as a National Winner
from Pakistan. Rs, 50,000 as prize money for the team members and Rs.100,000
donation for the project were awarded.
In next phase, British Council arranged online Regional competition among the
National Winners of Central and South Asian countries e.g. KAZIKISTAN,
UZBAKISTAN, NEPAL, BANGLADESH, INDIA, AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN. This competition
was also won by the team of VTI Green Town, Lahore and all four team members got
prizes of 04 Laptops from British High Commissioner Mr. Adam Thomson in Serena
Hotel Islamabad on March 28, 2011.
The names of the team Members
were:
1.
Asia Kausar
2.
Ahsan Ali
3.
Maham Sadiq
4.
Rana Adeel
Team Project is a Small Diagnostic Center for Hepatitis named as “CARE
DIAGNOSTIC CENTER FOR HEPATITIS”
VTI Green Town won British Council -
The National Challenge 2010
The National Enterprise Award challenge took place in Lahore in December 2010
being the third National Challenge in Pakistan. This time we reached out to 400
colleges in all major cities of Pakistan and interacted with over 1000 students
and 400 teachers with the concept of social entrepreneurship. As a result of
this interaction we received more than 200 project proposals from the entire
country.
Our team of expert shortlisted nine teams from which the team from Vocational
training institute Green Town Lahore was declared the winner. They won Rs.50,000
in addition to 100000 they requested for their project and a chance to
participate in the regional final which will be held online as last year.
News Details @ British Council Web Site
Poverty No barrier to creativity
(Jhang to london)
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British Council is running skills for employability project in vocational
education and training in 6 countries in Central and South Asia. Under this
program with the collaboration of Youth Engagement Services (YES) Network
Pakistan, British Council launched the “Youth Social Entrepreneurship Award”al Entrepreneurship Award”
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300 TEVT institutes including PVTC Training School (VTI) at Jhang
participated in this competition
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VTI Jhang team, was declared winner among the participants.
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This team from Pakistan, VTI Jhang, was declared to be the winner of final
competition getting price money of £ 2,500 and a camcorder
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Prize ceremony was held at London on March 9 – 11, 2009
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VTI Jhang Team Members at London |