Breaking Ground's Women's Entrepreneurial Program (WEP) provides women with critical business skills through a seven-week business course that incorporates topics such as feasibility studies, basic marketing, cost analysis, and leadership. At the end of the program, women are invited to submit a business proposal to receive a loan from Breaking Ground. In 2016, Breaking Ground will distribute at least 16 business loans and provide business training to 50+ rural women.
Education and empowerment of women is one of the most powerful tools to reduce poverty in a community. For women in Cameroon, there are many barriers to accessing employment and earning their own income. However, when given the opportunity to be an economic provider, they invest more in family welfare: nutrition, healthcare, and education. Our Women's Entrepreneurial Program (WEP) provides women with critical business skills and the confidence to put them to use.
Breaking Ground's Women's Entrepreneurial Program (WEP) provides women with critical business skills through a seven-week course that incorporates topics such as feasibility studies, basic marketing, cost analysis, and leadership. This year, we will organize two rounds of business classes in Dschang. At the end of these courses women are invited to submit business proposals to receive loans from Breaking Ground. Repaid loans return to a revolving fund for future loans for participants.
The project will educate women providing them with business skills and financing to rise out of poverty, and provide for their families' health and well-being to help women like Saounde. As a widow with 4 children, Saounde never thought it would be possible to educate her children. Then she discovered WEP & received a loan to grow her poultry farm from 200 to 600 chickens. With the money from growing her business, Saounde now believes it will be possible to send her children to university.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
