By Katherine Zavala | Coordinator of Programs
This year, 30 women participated in OWDEB’s training on business skills. These workshops shared information on the process from creating a product to marketing the product. OWDEB also coordinated these workshops to include basic accounting skills for women to learn how to manage a budget and determine their product’s price and calculate a profit.
One of the main challenges OWDEB has encountered with these workshops is that many women have never received formal education so they don’t even know how to count or sum things. OWDEB is adding basic calculation courses to ensure that all of the women participants have the same opportunity to lead a successful income-generating project. OWDEB has already started to organize financial literacy classes for these women’s daughters and other young girls in the community to start building these skills for when the time comes when they want to start their own income-generating project.
OWDEB has provided these 30 women with microcredits summing up to a total of $1,715 so that they can put into practice what they have learned and invest their money in an income-generating projects. As a result, women have initiated their own project in the following projects: • Bamboo cane-made products • Net-making • Vegetable cultivation • Livestock rearing including: goat, cow or chicken-raising • Tailoring • Carpentry, • Small trade shop, etc.
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