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Women entrepreneurs showcased their products, shared their concern journeys and deliberated connected marketplace access, concern and integer opportunities astatine a league held successful Visakhapatnam connected Tuesday. The event, Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs: Urban Ecosystem and Grassroots Leadership, brought unneurotic entrepreneurs, manufacture representatives, ecosystem enablers and assemblage organisations to sermon ways of strengthening women-led enterprises.
The lawsuit was organised by the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Aspire For Her (AFH), with the Women’s Wing of the Visakhapatnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) serving arsenic a partner.
Member of Parliament M. Sribharat on with VMRDA Commissioner N. Tej Bharath be the lawsuit and joined discussions connected strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women successful the region.
During the sheet discussions and spotlight sessions women entrepreneurs shared their experiences. The deliberations examined challenges faced by women successful concern and explored pathways for scaling enterprises done stronger marketplace connections and organization support.
The accumulation portion was an attraction astatine the conference, with entrepreneurs showcasing products ranging from handicrafts to food-based enterprises. Among the participants were Arra Pottery, which displayed ceramic ware, Sankalpa Art Village and the Visakhapatnam Town Fisherwomen Dry Fish Cooperative Society, 1 of the oldest Fishermen Farmer Producer Organisations (FFPOs) successful the region. Registered successful 1987, the cooperative has 164 women members engaged successful processing and selling adust fish.
Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of the event, GAME programme manager Subhash Kiran said that entrepreneurship flourishes erstwhile section ecosystems enactment together. “Through collaborations with assemblage organisations, manufacture and marketplace partners, we are moving to assistance women entrepreneurs determination beyond subsistence livelihoods and physique enterprises that tin standard and entree larger markets,” helium added.
Divya Sampath of Aspire For Her said that the organisation’s nationwide web is moving to widen opportunities for women entrepreneurs. “Aspire For Her is simply a assemblage of 1.2 cardinal women. In collaboration with GAME, we are implementing the Hamsafal programme to fortify entrepreneurial journeys and make entree to opportunities,” she said.
The league featured keynote addresses, entrepreneur occurrence stories, buyer-seller interactions and networking sessions.
