Business Mentorship Breakfast Meeting
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Project Summary: HOCIC under the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Program funded by Oxfam hosted breakfast meetings for women from Umguza rural district on business mentorship. The women are mainly into farming, mining, cross boarder trading and buying and selling different wares. HOCIC started working with the women in 2014 in a project that was mainly focusing on establishment of Self Help Groups. Most of the women now have established small businesses and would like to develop the businesses to another level.
About Business Breakfast Meetings
HOCIC identified mentors who are running successful businesses in Bulawayo and lined up monthly breakfast meetings in Bulawayo that focused on various themes that are pertinent to WEE which include Financing your business, Branding and Self Development and Use of social media to market your business.
A number of women were nominated to participate in the three Breakfast meetings, 15 women who are mentor level, well established successful women and 30 mentee level, upcoming businesswomen based in Umguza Rural District.
This program’s goals were to encourage mentorship, business development and create a platform for networking among the participants.