Women Entrepreneurship Programme
Girls who drop out of school early are often more vulnerable to poverty, exploitation, and other forms of discrimination. They are also less likely to be aware of their rights and less equipped to advocate for themselves, perpetuating a cycle of poverty and disadvantage.
Despite the importance of education, many girls in Ghana are still dropping out of school, significantly impacting the country’s economic growth and social welfare.
Girls from poor families must overcome an especially difficult set of obstacles to successfully complete school. Poverty is the primary factor associated with dropping out.
Women Entrepreneurship Programme is timely and essential to improve the financial status, health, and overall well-being of young females. It enables our beneficiaries to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills necessary for personal and professional growth. The Programme promotes social inclusion and equity by providing equal opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their gender, race, or ethnicity.
Kwegyir Aggrey (an educationist) once said “If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate an entire family (nation)”. The Women Entrepreneurship Programme is a strategic project aimed at developing entrepreneurial mindset, confidence and related skills of young women, especially female head-porters (Kayaye) with frail socioeconomic background.
This Programme empowers young women to live a dignified, happy and fulfilling lifestyle by equipping them with Technical and Vocational skills related required of occupations in various sectors of the economy through formal, non-formal and informal learning methods.
The Programme enhances the entrepreneurial spirit of young women, increases business creation rates and provides alternative pathways of employability and, most of all, young women’s personal fulfilment. The challenges that women encounter in starting a business include discouraging social/cultural outlooks, lack of entrepreneurial skills, non-effective entrepreneurial networks and policy frameworks that discourage women’s entrepreneurship. Our Programme fundamentally addresses these barriers.
Our approach aims at offering young women the opportunity to start a business alone or with others. It is an all-in-one programme that broadens the knowledge of participants in entrepreneurship and sustainable management. It improves attitudes and fosters skills needed to initiate and manage an enterprise, and most of all, empower them with the support of our Fundamental Supportive Programme.
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- To foster the spirit of self-employment among entrepreneurs, especially, young females to develop small and medium-sized businesses.
- To support the formation of new businesses and the expansion of existing ones in rural areas by developing specific programmes.
- To instill entrepreneurial skills in aspiring entrepreneurs and to assist existing entrepreneurs in developing such skills.
- To empower entrepreneurs to identify or redefine their business objectives and work individually and in groups to achieve them.
- To prepare entrepreneurs for unexpected challenges and hazards linked with their business.
- To aid enterprises in making strategic decisions.
- To instill teamwork and coordination abilities in order to fulfill future needs.
- To help future entrepreneurs improve their communication skills.
- To enable future entrepreneurs to define the vision of their ventures and collaborate on their development.
- To prepare aspiring entrepreneurs to analyze their surroundings and make appropriate business model selections.
- To help future entrepreneurs understand the legal procedures and conventions involved in starting a new business.
- To teach aspiring entrepreneurs the fundamentals of business environment.
| Numeracy Skills |
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| Basic Grammar |
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| Athletics (Swimming) |
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| Business Support Services |
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| Total Quality Management |
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| Entrepreneurship Skills |
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| Personal Financial Management |
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Beneficiaries can take a maximum of 2 skill specific courses
| Second-Hand Clothing Crafts |
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| Fiber and Textiles Craft |
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| Flower and Deco Crafts |
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| Leatherwork Crafts |
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| Needlework Craft |
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| Woodworks Craft |
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| Metalworks Craft |
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| Basketry Craft |
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| Soap Making Craft |
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| Sugarcraft |
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