By Sierra James | Program Manager
"The information I have learned in this training is very important because it can support me to achieve my dream as a businesswoman. The activities I have learned in this training really help me to enlarge my business selling clothes and vegetables. Also, I have a dream to sell chickens in order to help me pay for school fees for my children and spend money wisely in the family," reported a 43 years old businesswoman in Maliana, a remote part of Timor-Leste.
Over the last several months, the project team has conducted two types of trainings, one on women’s economic empowerment and the other on conflict resolution and gender-based violence prevention. Now we as we wrap up our work in Maliana we will be creating a film about products and best-practices from the field, and holding a business plan competition and delivering assets to the winners to jump start their small business initiatives.
Over the next quarter Ba Futuru will begin research and then start the next phase of the project on Atauro Island where the project will empower women as agents of peace and development over the next 1.5 years.
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