The KP Women Business Development Centre (WBDC), will hold a two-week 'Eid Gala' from August 17, which will continue till end of Ramazan. It aims to showcase women entrepreneurs' products and provide an opportunity to promotion their business. More than 20 stalls comprising handicraft, handmade embroidery work, jewellery and other stuffs of women businesspersons would be displayed, said Nabeela Farman, program manager of the WBDC.
She said that the expo will be opened in Women Business Development Center from August 17, which would be inaugurated by the wife of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kauser. She said the WBDC has achieved milestone during the last one year. She said the Centre had played vital role for development of women business, enhancement of capacity building, advocacy and training of women entrepreneurs in the province.
She said the WBDC had strived for promotion of women products through gradually organising Trade Fair and Gala. Neebela recalled that they had successfully organised three-day Summer Interprovincial Trade Fair one month and half month ago, in which women entrepreneurs from different parts of the country participated. WBDC is working on four major areas for capacity building and development of women entrepreneurs, including training, counselling, expo, seminars, workshops, and exposure visits, she said.
She said that the WBDC had so far organised different training sessions and programs for development of women entrepreneurs business over the past one year on various themes, including Eid expo, colour of Abaseen, Business fair, women day exhibition, spring festival, youth fair, expo at Home Economic College, Peshawar, Summer Inter-provincial Trade, solo exhibitions, etc.
She said that the Centre had arranged different exposure visits for establishment of market linkages and match making of women entrepreneurs, including Charssada footwear training institute, Lok virsa, Islamabad, Said Pur village, Islamabad Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry (IWCCI), Embroidery clusters of Haripur and Abottabad, Lahore, and Faisalabad.
The awareness seminars and skill enhancement workshops had also been organised for women entrepreneurs about Bacha Khan Khpal Rozgar Scheme along with arranging two different workshops on titled Candle Making, and Fabric Painting, she explained. She said the WBDC had established youth Entrepreneurship Development Forum (YEDF) in order to register more educational institutions with the Centre. WBDC has so far conducted orientation seminar in six eminent Universities, including Iqra University, Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) Hayabatad, City University, Sarhad University, Preston University and Engineering College. Regarding physical progress, she explained the WBDC had arranged a visit for politicians, members of civil society to know about its operational activities and other women development initiatives under a cluster approaches.
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