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Female entrepreneurs transfer skills to rural women
26-3-2019
In partnership with UN Women and the UN Global Compact, the Blessing Foundation launched on March 22 the Female Mentoring Program 2019-2020. The program supports talents of women entrepreneurs in rural areas throughout Lebanon linking them with leading women entrepreneurs to the end of developing their skills and improving and marketing the handicrafts they create. To note, the above mentoring program complements the SheMinLebnen initiative kicked off in 2018 under the patronage of prime minister Saad Hariri (c.f: https://goo.gl/u5GeCd) . The projects is expected to target some 430 rural entrepreneurs supported by the initiative. On the program, founder of the Blessing Foundation, Rima Husseini, explained that rural women are at the core of the initiative, and will become the ambassadors of change in their own communities where they will set up their small enterprises and generate prospects for others. For her part, the director of Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls Program by UN Women, Faten Tibi, said the program aims as well to engage the private sector which encompasses nearly 80% of jobs in Lebanon. Likewise, the minister of state for economic empowerment of youth and women, Violette Safadi, pointed out that her ministry will support all the above through its strategic plan focused on three main themes: build capacities and skills of women, encourage them to venture into entrepreneurship and thirdly, modernize and adjust discriminatory laws in order to enable women to participate in decision making. ( L’Orient Le Jour, March 23, 2019)
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