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Why street cobblers?
Roshan Deen is a cobbler in Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Shoe repair craftsmen like Roshan Deen are referred to as ‘mochees’ or cobblers and in majority they ply their...
View ArticleThe Mochee Project (Street Cobbler Project)
Peace Through prosperity’s flagship project is the ‘Mochee Project’; designed to reach out to and help the marginalized entrepreneur operating on the fringes of society as street cobblers. The Mochee...
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Demographics of Street Cobblers Surveyed – Their age range
The results of PTP’s pilot survey show that 47.39% of the survey sample is between the ages of 12 to 28 year olds (12 to 16 at 4.97% and 17 to 28 year olds at 42.41%). This represents demographics of...
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Geographical Area Covered for the pilot of the Cobbler/Mochee Project
PTP’s pilot project is being carried out in Rawalpindi (main city) and Chichawatni (town) in the Punjab, Haripur (district) and Darra Adam Khel (DAK)[1] (town) in KPK. The geographical coverage for the...
View ArticleA peak into the life of a cobbler in the third world…
Intelligent deduction from visits, narratives (both fact and fiction!) and googling is that the socio economic conditions of pavement or street based craftsmen is very similar across the third world....
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Standing on the shoulders of a giant!
From the very begining we have had the Timpson group on our radar and until very recently team PTP was struggling to make contact with the right people within Timpsons… then in July 2012 our advisor...
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Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test
Week commencing 3rd September 2012 we launched into unknown territory… filed testing our Mochee_Project_BusinessGrowthManualv1.1 with street cobblers. The manual is currently only available in Urdu. We...
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Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test log
Day 1: Date: 3rd September 2012 Time: 18:00 to 20:00.pm Attendance: 3/4 Day one was an introductory session and of our four selected street cobblers three attended: Khan Wada, Walayat Khan and Lal...
View ArticleWord from Dara Adam Khel
October has undeniably been a month of downs, downs and more downs for all those who are working towards a peaceful and prosperous society in Pakistan. On 9 October 2012, Malala Yousafzai was shot in...
View ArticleWe knew it was never going to be easy…
….but we did not know we would be fighting off extortionists and opportunists… but before anything else… Happy new year, we have been off the radar but been super busy since November, we have had ups,...
View ArticleLetting Change speak for its self
It has been over a month since our second cohort went back to their businesses having completed the PTP street cobbler business growth program and though the quantitative results are being compiled for...
View ArticleDelivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers
We are complicated creatures and have a tendency to complicate the most simple of tasks, don’t believe me… take a closer look at the Belgian bureaucracy! When we at team PTP tell folks about our...
View ArticleDelivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 2 Training
A glimpse into the delivery of the PTP Mini-MBA / Business Growth Program for street cobblers. Day 2. Insight into our Business Growth Program – Training: day 2 from Peace Through Prosperity on Vimeo....
View ArticleDelivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 3 Training
A glimpse into the delivery of the PTP Mini-MBA / Business Growth Program for street cobblers. Day 3. One key difference for this post is team PTP experimenting with shorter videos of our training...
View ArticleDelivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 4 Training
A glimpse into the delivery of the PTP Mini-MBA / Business Growth Program for street cobblers. Day 4. One key difference for this post is team PTP experimenting with shorter videos of our training...
View ArticleChanging the rules to the game….
We are getting better at this but refusing to play by the old rules…. for things to change we have to redefine the rules, clearly the old games do not work else we would not be needed to burn the...
View ArticleInspiring Street Cobblers – guest speaker series
MBA programs invite guest speakers to inspire their students and for them to have the opportunity to interact with individuals practicing the art in the real world, PTP’s mini-MBA program does the same...
View ArticleDelivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 5 Training
A glimpse into the delivery of the PTP Mini-MBA / Business Growth Program for street cobblers. Day 5. Day 5 is all about bringing the previous evening’s learning together with real examples from the...
View ArticlePowerless….
For the past two odd months we have been busy battling it out (with zero success) with the Capital Development Authority, an awkward organisation at the best of times and under the interim government...
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Impact of our mini-MBA program on Livelihoods – Qasim Khan
Over the next few weeks we shall be reporting on the impact our mini-MBA program is having on individual street cobblers Peace Through Prosperity has engaged, coached and monitored so far. We shall let...
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