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Dream and Achieve Begins Season Two

Dream and Achieve helps entrepreneurs improve their businesses while educating viewers about the importance of the private sector.

Kabul, Afghanistan | Saturday, August 15, 2009

Photo: Tolo TV

A Dream and Achieve contestant.

Having awakened Afghanistan’s entrepreneurial spirit, Afghanistan’s popular business reality TV show recently began its second season. Dream and Achieve helps entrepreneurs improve their businesses while educating viewers about the importance of the private sector. The first episodes of the second season showed highlights from interviews with 250 potential contestants in Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Mazari Sharif, Fayzabad, and Hirat. From these, Tolo TV will select 24 finalists to compete and be judged on their business ideas, plans, and strategies. These entrepreneurs will receive assistance from leading business development services to conduct market assessments and draft business plans. The show also features educational segments on starting and growing small businesses in Afghanistan. Dream and Achieve airs Sundays at 8 pm on Tolo TV.

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