WEDO facilitates entrepreneurial training for 90 women entrepreneurs
Women Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO) has facilitated a one week long training workshop for 90 women from small and medium business enterprises. The Entrepreneurship Day Organization collaborated with Homelink Finance for sponsorship and Great Zimbabwe University for the course modules. The participants drawn from both rural and urban business environments were trained in aspects of initiating, running and growing a business through topics such as Business Plan writing, Record Keeping, Business Communication and Marketing. WEDO Zimbabwe Ambassador Angeline Mikiri said the training workshop is part of WEDO’s 2019 calendar of programs. ‘As WEDO, part of our mandate is to be a forum where women can come together and collectively tackle issues of financial inclusion through advocacy and training in financial literacy. We observed that most of our members are not able to grow their enterprises beyond cottage levels due to lack of access to financial support. In other word