“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Today marks the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Read the transcript of his celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on Aug.
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The key to furthering the entrepreneurship of Indian women? Empower them legally and economically.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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