Over 40 women empowered -Receive skills-training at Self-Reliance and Success in Business workshop
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DPI, GUYANA, Friday, May 11, 2018
First Lady Sandra Granger says that she is receiving more requests for workshops to train women into starting their own businesses.
She said that this indicated “that women are interested in moving on and becoming self-sufficient and self-reliant and confident about themselves, both in an economic and personal sense.”
The First Lady made this observation today at the closing ceremony for participants in a Self-Reliance and Success in Business Workshop, which is a project that she pioneered.
Forty-seven women of all ages and one male from the community of Ann’s Grove, East Coast of Demerara, took part in the five-day workshop which commenced on May 7.
Among the participants was 19-year-old Anoah Billey, who said that she is now better positioned to establish her own business and help others in the community to start their own ventures. Billey is confident that her plan of setting up a copy centre can now become a reality since she is now equipped to operate such a facility.
Melissa Andrews, a beauty salon proprietor, said she was “doing business the wrong way”, noting that is why she was losing as opposed to earning. Now that she has completed the course “there would be a great change for me.” Andrews explained that she truly understands the value of creating clientele in the community and proper financial bookkeeping.
A small-scale baker of Ann’s Grove, Karen Obena Mc Lean, said she was inspired by the training to get her business registered. “I’m going to implement the teaching we got into what I’m doing to better it and be more successful.”
This is the 27th Self Reliance and Success in Business Workshop, thus far. Participants were hosted at the Ebenezer Congregational Church in Ann’s Grove.
Director of Interweave Solutions (Guyana) Incorporated, Sanjay Yohann Pooran said that the programme encourages participants to make the best of their recently acquired knowledge. He also encouraged them to seize similar opportunities from the Small Business Bureau (SBB) and other entities.
By: Zanneel Williams.
Photographs courtesy Anil Seelall
Unice Fortune receives her certificate from Director of Interweave Solutions (Guyana) Incorporated, Sanjay Yohann Pooran.
[In front row, from left to right] Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Smith, Director of Interweave Solutions (Guyana) Incorporated, Sanjay Yohann Pooran, Wayne Barrow, First Lady Mrs.Sandra Granger, Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, Chairperson of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Region Four, Genevieve Allen and one of the workshop trainers along with the 27th graduating batch of Self-Reliance and Success in Business Workshop today at the Ebenezer Congregational Church in Ann’s Grove, East Coast of Demerara.