Youth Ventures is a well known program that has grown and now has 25 Regional Coordinators across Newfoundland and Labrador who help students start businesses.
Joshua Kaunak is the Youth Ventures Coordinator.
He says this is designed for students who are 12-29 years old.
Kaunak says this Fall/Winter youth ventures will once again pick one to two participants from each community followed by an instructor.
He adds that this time instead of ice cream they are going to make it festive, they will create Christmas ornaments and possible cards that they will sell to make profit.
Most of the crafts will mainly be traditional or land based crafts, like example: a muscle shell ornament, wooden snow men, hand woven snowflake ornaments and much more.
Youth Ventures works with close to 300 students and help start almost 200 businesses each year.
Since 1992 the program has helped over 7000 young people explore entrepreneurship.
To sign up for the Youth Ventures program you can email Joshua at joshua.kaunak@nunatsiavut.com so he can send you the application form or you can apply online on their website at www.youthventures.com/getstarted
The program itself is available to students across the province from May-September every year, however the Provincial Coordinator is available year round for anyone that still needs assistance or has any questions regarding their business.