School for Startups was founded in 2008 as a social purpose business to help people start their own businesses through our world-class training and support courses.School for Startups has developed its core curricula on the vital aspects of starting and growing a business, in a logical and easy to implement way. "We provide expert tuition on how to start a new business, finance and investment, product management, managing successful teams and entrepreneurial marketing."Current Programs: DEVELOPMENT OF A NAUTICAL TOURISM PRODUCT FOR SAN ANDRES AND PROVIDENCE ISLAND IN COLOMBIAAs part of the project, S4S is working with local nautical tourism companies to develop their businesses through entrepreneurship training and mentoring. The program seeks to develop a plan to develop a sustainable economy based on increasing the quality of the tourism offer to provide a more attractive proposition that will appeal to a more up-market and economically attractive tourist.PEACE AND SECURITY FOR WOMEN IN POST-ACCORD COLOMBIA. LOCATION: CHOCÓ AND PUTUMAYOIn partnership with the UTCH, the local University in Chocó, School for Startups is training Afro-Colombian and Indigenous women who have been affected by the conflict to develop and grow their own businesses to increase their self-sufficiency, develop their leadership skills and support their families. The program focussed on helping the women create new businesses, develop their existing businesses and help local cooperatives that support local women. The program comprised a mix of entrepreneurship training workshops and on-going mentoring across a period of six months. In total over 50 women have been supported in growing their local businesses.ALDEAThe Program combines, live face to face training and ongoing mentoring to drive young company growth. Participants who are interested in being involved can participate on the following link: www.aldeainnpulsa.com