Young Women from Nsele and Neighboring Towns Eager to Grow their Businesses
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- 26 Aug 2022
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The BREAK THE SILENCE Foundation, in collaboration with UN Women, organized this Thursday in Bibwa, in the municipality of Nsele, an intergenerational Gender Coffee on the theme of women's entrepreneurship. This brought together around a hundred participants, the majority of whom were young women between the ages of 18 and 35 who were keen to make their businesses profitable. They were selected with the involvement of the National Youth Council. Several clubs for female entrepreneurs were set up as a result of this work and will be the subject of special monitoring by the BREAK THE SILENCE Foundation.
This workshop, organized on the sidelines of International Youth Day, responds to the concern to involve young people in active life, through income-generating activities. It mainly revolved around the exchange of experiences between the participants and panelists, chosen for their experience and their successful career in entrepreneurship:
Tysia Mukuna from the coffee sector, founder of the La Kinoise coffee brand
EÌric Casinga from plastics processing, founder of Recoplast
Through their questions, the participants addressed the conditions for the success of a business, such as the management of legal constraints (taxes, fees, royalties, etc.), access to credit as well as market requirements.
In her speech, Mrs. Catherine Odimba , Deputy Representative of UN Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo stressed that "women's entrepreneurship has a very significant economic impact and is obviously a good lever for gender equality and for Sustainable development. "Building the entrepreneurial skills of women and girls is all the more important as the DRC and the world recover from the COVID-19 crisis. Read More...
