By Paul Zangue | Executive Director
Breaking Ground Women's Entrepreneurial program (WEP), provides women with critical business skills through a seven-week course, that incorporates topics like, feasibility studies,basic marketing, cost analysis and leadership. At the end of this course, they submit business proposals, to receive loans from Breaking Ground.
This year, we have trained about 50 female entrepreneurs. Education and the empowerment of these women will be the most powerful tools to reduce poverty in their community.
Their business proposals were carefully studied by a committee made up of some staff of Breaking Ground and our partner GADD,and several business class participants. The credit had a meeting to select which projects will receive funding, and they decided to fund five projects. Meet Helen and Eva, two of the female entreprepneurs whose projects were funded.
Meet Helen, she is a single mother and has one child. She has a bar where she sells beer and also sell food. Before she had the bar, she has been struggling alone to raise her child even though she is handicapped.She decided to join the entrepreneurial class in order to get skills, and financing to improve her business, and rise out of poverty. She also hopes to employ someone to help her out in the bar/restaurant, when she expands her business.This will not only increase the standard of living of this poor handicapped lady, but also reduce unemployment rate.
Eva is a mother of four kids, is single and owns a poultry. She said she has been struggling with her kids for a while, and did not even know if she will be able to educate her children. With the rate of unemployment in the country, even though educated, she could not get a job, and she could not just stay back at home because she had children to raise. She started the poultry farm some years back and had 100 folws, because of lack of experience in business and capital, the business failed. Then she discovered the WEP, and hopes to increase her poultry farm from 100 to 400 fowls with the aid of the loan received and business skills learned.
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