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JULIUS JAMES SHIRIMA
Julius James Shirima (born September 26, 1989) is a Tanzanian serial young entrepreneur and author. He gained fame in his country when, he founded Darecha (Dar Es Salaam Young Entrepreneurial Challenge) in 2008 to promote entrepreneurship among Tanzanian youth and assisting already established young entrepreneurs. Julius (then 19 years old) and his fellow Tanzanian classmates at the African Leadership Academy founded Darecha in their first year of high school. Since Darecha’s inception, Julius as the Chief Executive Officer has managed to lead the organization to reach over thousand young entrepreneurs in Tanzania

Personal life

Julius was born in 1989 to a high school girl who had been banished to her rural home to “hide the shame”. Life was hard for the two of them because his mother did not have a stable income. When he turned 3, Julius moved to Dar es Salaam to live with his aunt when she offered to pay for his education.It was at his aunt’s home that he was taken over by the spirit of entrepreneurship. Julius started his first business when he was 9.He started picking oranges and selling them in a basin, from door to door.” His orange business grew so much that he began to receive orders for his product. “I made quite a few coins from that trade,” he recalls in one of his interviews. The business did not affect his performance in the class and when he completed standard seven, he was among the ten students who were called to join a public secondary school. At Kibaha secondary school, he started a new trade – giving students extra tuition for a fee. He completed form four with some of the best scores in the country and was among the top 10. For two weeks after the results came out he was the recipient of many congratulatory messages. “But when the congratulations ended I remained the same Julius, with not much to show for my achievement,” he says. At that moment, he decided to start his own business called “Mobile Teachers”. Luckily for him, soon after that he won a scholarship to study entrepreneurship and leadership at the African Leadership Academy in South Africa.Julius is currently a full time student at the College Of Wooster in Ohio,USA

Entrepreneurship journey

In his first year at the academy in Johannesburg, he took issue with how the school shop was being run. He together with his friend wrote a proposal to the school management and they gave them a tender. They took the shop business on credit. Within the first month under the new management, the shop’s performance improved. He also co-founded the community homestead gardening project called Grow Greene Itsoseng. As he went to school and worked at the shop, the idea of Darecha began to germinate.

In 2008, the seedling became a young tree when the Darecha idea became a bona fide business. “I wanted to fill the void in this country which denies the youth a platform to share their business ideas just because they cannot write business proposals.” Through Darecha, Julius and a team have organised three competitions for Tanzanian youth who develop business ideas and are rewarded with capital to start the businesses. “We started with 200 applicants in the first year but this year we had about 600. After high school he took one year off to write a book called A True Lifetime Opportunity.

Speaking opportunities

In 2011,Julius was selected by Global Changemakers international organization as among 3 young Africans to present in the IdeasLab session in the World Economic Forum.

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