Agrogoti reported that 13 trainees completed the first batch and the remaining 11 have started the second, filling all 24 planned places.
The second batch began in October once the second funding instalment arrived.
- In progress
- Project Call Me, Maybe
- Satkhira
- Skills & Training
£3,916Total deployed
What this did for 24 young technicians.
An income that does not depend on the weather.
- 7 MO
- Duration
- 24
- Participants
- 75-120K BDT
- Net annual income
- 25
- New repair shops
per technician
opened from zero capital
The land stopped paying, and the options that were left were worse.
More than half the families in Kaliganj lived off agriculture. Cyclones, creeping salinity and floods have damaged the soil and the harvests, and the income has gone with them.
What is left pulls young people towards selling drugs, gambling, or risky overseas migration that ends in trafficking. Phone repair pays whatever the weather does, and it pays locally.
Where every pound went
| Ref | Line item | Amount | Share | Chk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L-01 | Mobile servicing toolkits | £2,074 | 53.0% | |
| L-02 | Travel costs for participants | £444 | 11.3% | |
| L-03 | Trainer fee | £333 | 8.5% | |
| L-04 | Shop set-up | £148 | 3.8% | |
| L-05 | Hall room rent | £56 | 1.4% | |
| L-06 | Business and customer handling orientation | £49 | 1.3% | |
| L-07 | Awareness sessions | £49 | 1.3% | |
| L-08 | Materials on crime prevention and safe livelihoods | £31 | 0.8% | |
| L-09 | Training materials | £15 | 0.4% | |
| L-10 | Monitoring and follow-up | £74 | 1.9% | |
| L-11 | Audit fee | £309 | 7.9% | |
| L-12 | Administration | £333 | 8.5% | |
| Σ | Total deployed | £3,916 | 100% |
Founders covered all operational costs, so members' contributions went to the project.
Twelve months. Four things.
01
Three months of repair training
A mobile repair and servicing course for 24 young people from climate-hit families, taught in small batches. Charging ports, display replacements, and the everyday repairs that pay the bills.
02
A toolkit each
Every graduate received a full professional kit: soldering iron, power supply, separator machine. Enough to open on day one without putting up capital they do not have.
03
Setting up the shop
Support with repairs, fit-out or the first month’s rent, and market mapping so the shops opened where there was real demand and thin competition rather than on top of each other.
04
Each one teaches one
Every graduate trains at least one more unemployed young person, free. It doubles the reach and it keeps going without us.
Updates
Saif visited the training centre and found strong attendance, with trainees able to explain mobile tools, motherboard sections and basic fault diagnosis.
Power cuts and missing smartphone equipment are affecting practical sessions; baseline income data still needs collecting.
The first batch of 13 trainees started mobile repair and servicing training at Agrogoti's centre in Kaliganj, Satkhira.
Training started about a month late; Agrogoti linked the delay to the approval process.
After seeing mobile repair training in Satkhira, Pushpa asked Agrogoti Sangstha for a full proposal. It became this project.
