Empowerment Projects
Include challenged women entrepreneurs
Discussion told
Speakers at a roundtable discussion yesterday urged the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to include women entrepreneurs with disabilities in their Tk 10 million fund allocation for women entrepreneurs' empowerment projects.
The government and NGOs should lend their support to initiate more projects that include active participation of women entrepreneurs with disabilities, they added.
The roundtable was organised by Access Bangladesh Foundation and ActionAid Bangladesh.
"Women entrepreneurs with disabilities would also feel more encouraged if the SME Foundation introduced the category of Best SME Woman Entrepreneur with Disabilities in their annual National SME Women Entrepreneurs Awards," suggested Managing Director of Access Bangladesh Foundation Albert Mollah in his keynote speech.
He also urged different ministries to reserve a 10 percent quota in all their training projects for the empowerment of women entrepreneurs with disabilities.
Tarik-Ul-Islam, secretary to the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, said, "With appropriate support from the finance ministry, funds can be allocated for the empowerment of women with disabilities if a suitable project proposal is submitted."
Social activist Julian Francis, among others, also spoke at the discussion.
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