This story was compiled by Hon Tugume muzafaru senior news reporter in rubirizi for media coverage 0702269269.
The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in collaboration with CARE Uganda has engaged and conducted a training for women entrepreneurs, youth, men and the wider business community in Rubirizi to equip them with knowledge and skills on how to start and grow businesses that can improve their household incomes and fight poverty.
The engagement meeting was held today at Rubirizi Town Council headquarters. The training is part of government and partners efforts to promote entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and poverty eradication at household level focused on building the capacity of traders with practical business knowledge and skills.
Madam Felly Tumwesigye A trainer from care uganda says that the training was aimed at equipping and empowering traders and women entrepreneurs , men’s and other business community with knowledge and skills in start income generating projects and small businesses that can sustain their families and it will help them grow and start businesses discussed challenges, mindset change, and how to overcome obstacles that limit traders especially women highlighted that CARE Uganda in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender came out to support small-scale traders by providing business knowledge , skills and linking them to opportunities that can help boost their capital for the development of their homes added that loan wrangles between capples have broken family businesses.
Mbonye Marklevis The District Community Development officer urged women entrepreneurs to form strong groups so that government can support them with seed capital noticed a worrying trend in Rubirizi where some people misuse government money meant for groups warn those who receive government funds and divert them for personal use said that they have started an operation to arrest anyone found misusing women and youth funds because Such people will be taken to court and prosecuted also warned those planning to form groups just to steal government money that the law will catch up with them ask them to Use groups to save, invest and improve your households and to educate your children and this training will help women tp access affordable loans through grow project and link them to markets by Supporting them to address harmful social norms and will link women to affordable finance,market and mentorship.
Hon Tugume Muzafaru Area Councillor Representing Ndekye Town business community thanked the ministry of gender and care uganda for coming to sensitize traders saying that this will help them greatly in their businesses call upon women to work together with their husbands in business and in managing the homes noting that Households that work together do not experience domestic violence, hunger or poverty noted that women entrepreneurs have been challenged to address barriers stopping their businesses from growing and this training will help business community to make sure all women and men entrepreneurs who are doing business are supported in doing it and not distracted by barriers that can stop them from doing their business in peaceful moments and will greatly help them improve their businesses encourage traders to embrace a saving culture to ensure sustainability and growth of their businesses noted that Saving will help them to grow their social capital, expand their businesses, and secure your future.
Meanwhile market vendors led by Birahenda Benard and Catherine Binomugisha one of the participants thank CARE Uganda for training them giving them knowledge that will help them alot as entrepreneurs to improve themselves and their business noted that they have learned new things they did not know before training such as proper bookkeeping, business management, record keeping, business planning,saving ,customer care, financial discipline and group dynamics that we did not know before promise to put into practice what they have learned so that it can help them grow their businesses and improve our homes working together in unity and development.END.
