This course is for anyone who wants to earn from home but is not sure where to start. It is especially useful for stay-at-home parents, students, part-time workers and people with limited capital. Instead of pushing one idea, the course presents several realistic home-based options and shows you how to evaluate which one fits your skills, space and time.

You begin by exploring different home-based business models common in Zambia and the region: tailoring, baking, nails and beauty, online services, home daycare, reselling products, small farming and more. For each model, you look at typical start-up costs, required skills, potential earnings and daily workload.

The course then teaches you how to assess yourself honestly. You reflect on your strengths, interests, available space, support system and risk tolerance. With this, you narrow down to one or two main ideas to test. You are guided through designing a simple “test phase” where you start small, serve a few customers and learn quickly without big losses.

You also learn about basic home-business systems: how to separate home and business money, how to use a notebook or simple app for records, how to set rules with family members and how to maintain professionalism even when working from the living room or backyard.

By the end, you will have chosen a practical home-based business, created a light business plan, and set up simple systems for pricing, promotion and record keeping, ready to start serving your first customers.