To address poverty exacerbated by rising youth unemployment, the Basotho Enterprises Development Corporation (BEDCO), in collaboration with the Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) and the Standard Lesotho Bank (SLB), calls for proposals for the Bacha Entrepreneurship Project.
The project aims to support unemployed youth aged 21 to 35 in becoming employers and driving economic growth by helping them start their own businesses. It seeks to cultivate a generation of young entrepreneurs capable of overcoming barriers to becoming job creators rather than job seekers. The three partners invite viable, sustainable, and profitable business proposals that will receive a total start-up capital of M1,000,000.00.

The Bacha Entrepreneurship Project is a collaborative effort aimed at tackling unemployment among young people. It strives to cultivate a generation of
entrepreneurs who can thrive by becoming job creators rather than job seekers. This project paves the way for youth to shape and determine the economic agenda of their country. Here is an opportunity for young people to transform a crisis into a chance, especially at a time when youth unemployment in Africa is rising faster than in other parts of the world.