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International Woman
Lucy Brooks

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in India

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Cross border compliance, Culture, emerging markets, Enlighten Me!, Equality, Event, Featured, Foreign office setup, Gender challenges, Global news, global women entrepreneurs, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Mentoring (Peer to peer), Networking, Poverty (tackling it), Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media and Network, Technology, Web globalization, WEGG news, WEGG supporter, Working abroad
March 25, 2019
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The key to furthering the entrepreneurship of Indian women? Empower them legally and economically. 

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International Women's Day
Lucy Brooks

Happy International Women’s Day from wegg®!

  • Posted by Lucy Brooks
  • Categories Cross border compliance, Culture, Enlighten Me!, Environmental, Equality, Event, Featured, Foreign office setup, Gender challenges, Global news, global women entrepreneurs, Innovation, Inspiration, Leadership, Mentoring (Peer to peer), Networking, Poverty (tackling it), Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media and Network, Technology, Web globalization, WEGG news, WEGG supporter, Working abroad
March 8, 2019
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Happy International Women’s Day from wegg®! 

The theme for International Women’s Day 2019 is “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change.” All of these ideas are principles that wegg® has aimed to instill in the lives of women entrepreneurs year round, since 2008. 

For International Women’s Day 2019, 

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Laurel Delaney

Uplifting Women Worldwide Economically

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Country specific, Economic growth, global women entrepreneurs, Poverty (tackling it)
April 10, 2016
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UpliftingWomenWorldwide

New Delhi, India Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has a desire to “desire to partner with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) to enhance the socio-economic position of women in the matrilineal state.”

He also added that:

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Laurel Delaney

Women as Accelerators

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Education, Gender challenges, Poverty (tackling it)
March 5, 2016
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WomenAsAccelerators

At WEGG, we believe in empowering women economically, through global trade education and employment, so they can run healthier businesses and create a new future for themselves, their families and their community.  If leveraged properly, we have the ability to generate an economic surge for communities,

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Laurel Delaney

Best Practices in Promoting Women's Entrepreneurship in China

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Business Development, Country specific, Economic growth, global women entrepreneurs, Poverty (tackling it)
October 25, 2015
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In launching a national workshop to promote women’s development in Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang Province, the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) provides women entrepreneurs with a broad stage for future growth and development on all levels, including business ownership.

The training course presented some of the latest opportunities and challenges in women’s development in light of the ongoing reforms of mass organizations and the Communist Youth League.

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Laurel Delaney

Due to Challenges in India, Women Become Entrepreneurs

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Business Development, Country specific, Inspiration, Poverty (tackling it)
December 28, 2014
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ChennaiIndiaStreetLife

An all-women fish-pickle unit based in Chennai-India, operated and owned by Sea Dot, a self-help group of female fish workers whose communities were shattered by the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, has become a way to build back lives for the women’s families after the destruction of their houses and fishing boats.

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Laurel Delaney

Stepping Stones to Prosperity for Kenya Women

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Country specific, Gender challenges, Micro-enterprises, Poverty (tackling it)
July 26, 2014
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It goes like this.  A New York-based social enterprise Bird & Stone sells jewelry and sends 15 percent of its profits to the SiSi Fund.  SiSi Fund:

A micro-finance fund in Kitale, Kenya run by a nonprofit, it helps women,

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Laurel Delaney

Women Carry the Weight of Water on Their Backs in Developing Countries

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Country specific, Gender challenges, Poverty (tackling it), Sustainability practices
March 22, 2014
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According to Gemma Bulos in her article “Water, Dignity and Sustainable Livelihoods for Women in Kenya,” women outnumber male entrepreneurs in developing economies because they face higher barriers to entry in the formal labor market and have to resort to entrepreneurship as a way out of poverty.

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Laurel Delaney

Invent Something That Can Lift Your Neighbors Out of Poverty

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories e-commerce, Exporting, Global trade, global women entrepreneurs, Poverty (tackling it), Social Entrepreneurship
January 5, 2014
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South African Sarah Collins, who grew up under apartheid, was driven to become an entrepreneur so she could invent something that would help lift her neighbors out of poverty.

She tried earthworm farms and co-op vegetable crops, yet never got very far until a countrywide electricity shortage caused rolling blackouts in 2007 and she was forced to figure out a way to keep her dinner warm without power.

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Laurel Delaney

A World Where Women Have a Voice and Excel

  • Posted by Laurel Delaney
  • Categories Education, Poverty (tackling it), Training (entrepreneurial)
July 6, 2013
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CherieBlair

Cherie Blair (pictured) has it right.  She’s developed the Cherie Blair Foundation (2008) to help women build small and growing businesses in developing and emerging markets so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies.

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