The Ladies Towards Violence Empowered by means of Sustainability (WAVES) has educated 50 girls entrepreneurs in Kano on monetary literacy to spice up their financial empowerment and strengthen their enterprise capability.
The 2-day coaching, supported by the French Embassy in Nigeria and carried out by Bridge Join Africa Initiative, aimed toward equipping girls with abilities to run sustainable agri-food companies, enhance profitability, and improve monetary administration.
WAVES Mission Lead, Nathan Bako, stated the programme was designed to assist contributors establish enterprise alternatives, entry markets and finance, and enhance worth addition. He famous that the coaching additionally coated cooperative formation, enterprise planning, pitching, networking, and sector-specific steering.
“The purpose is to allow girls to determine, handle, and develop sustainable agri-food companies. Members are studying find out how to spot market gaps, appeal to and retain clients, observe earnings and bills, enhance product high quality, increase gross sales channels, and entry funding sources,” Bako defined.
In keeping with him, skilled girls entrepreneurs had been additionally invited to share their success tales to encourage and information contributors.
One of many contributors, Salamat Musa, recommended the organisers, describing the coaching as a life-changing alternative.
She stated the classes had uncovered her to new strategies that will assist her enterprise develop and stay aggressive.
Facilitators on the workshop confused the sensible utility of the data gained, making certain that girls might instantly apply the abilities of their companies.
The WAVES undertaking combines entrepreneurship coaching with advocacy towards gender-based violence, climate-smart agriculture, and enterprise improvement. It focuses on strengthening girls’s roles within the meals safety chain whereas elevating a brand new era of socially acutely aware and economically empowered leaders.
