Uganda: Women Business Programme to Start

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New Vision (Kampala)

16 July 2008
Posted to the web 17 July 2008

Kampala

TECHNOSERVE, an international charity, is to launch a $150,000 (sh247.5 million) women development programme aimed at empowering female entrepreneurs, reports Chris Kiwawulo.

The programme dubbed 'Women Mean Business' will help female entrepreneurs develop their businesses, said the country director, Erastus Kabugu.

"It will equip women entrepreneurs with skills, information, financial and market links."

The targeted sectors are agriculture, trade, transport, services and education.

He told journalists in Kampala on Tuesday that 20 women entrepreneurs, aged 22 and above, would be supported in the one-year pilot project.

The women, he added, would be selected from in and around Kampala and must have been in business for at least two years.

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