WOMEN SPACE
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COMESA Launches Campaign to Celebrate Women Entrepreneurs
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has launched a regional campaign to popularise a platform for women in business. The platform, known as 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWSP) is an information and networking hub for women which provides a one-stop shop for them to start, grow and scale up their businesses and to access financial and non-financial…
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Day: The role of women in business is changing
Last week, the world has been celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day. This is a day set aside to observe, celebrate, empower and support women in business around the world. Founded in 2013, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day was set to bring awareness to the millions of girls living in poverty globally, and deserve to be given a chance in life while at the same…
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Visa has unveiled a Ksh.242M grant to support Kenyan women-owned micro-businesses
Visa has announced a Ksh.242 Million grant to Hand in Hand Eastern Africa to support low-income business owners in Kenya. The program aims to help improve the livelihoods and resilience of 10,000 individuals in Kenya – 75% of which are women– by offering them business and financial skills training, mentorship and financial services. The three-year project will bring tailored skills…
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What Women use their Smartphones for
The top three uses showed that women are using their smartphones first to take pictures followed closely by banking and lastly online shopping.
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