June 18, 2018 | 20:28 (GMT+7)
Project promotes empowerment for women entrepreneurs
PANO - Qualcomm Company and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women have developed a DevelopHer project with the aim of empowering and creating conditions for Vietnamese women entrepreneurs to succeed in their business.
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The project's consultants in an exchange with women entrepreneurs |
Under the project, the recipients will be provided with a study application named HerVenture on mobile phone and given online consultation to help them overcome business challenges and lift their businesses to a new height.
With the application, women entrepreneurs can improve their business knowledge and skills, design their study schedule with attractive contents. The application also helps connects users based on geography, business fields and shared contents on social networks.
All Vietnamese women entrepreneurs can download HerVenture application via Google Play. It is estimated that some 3,000 women are to download this application this year.
The Vietnamese Government’s target is to have 35 percent women entrepreneurs by 2020 as part of the Government’s development strategy.
In Vietnam, the working group of the project has worked with the Hanoi Women Entrepreneurs Association, Women’s Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship, Ho Chi Minh City Women Entrepreneurs Association and Emerging360 Consulting Firm.
Further information about the project is available at http://www.cherieblairfoundation.org.
DevelopHer Project is supporting 180 potential women entrepreneurs in Vietnam and Southeast Asia via a consulting program for women in business. Each entrepreneurs will be accompanied by a consultant in a year. Via online study, the trainees will have access to lessons and resources on business, leaderships, consultants and financers and a community with over 6,000 people in 100 nations. After the program, the entrepreneurs are encouraged to be consultants for others to expand the scale and promote impacts of the project.
Translated by Mai Huong