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The Chybee Entrepreneurship Foundation for Women has supported ten business women with the sum of one hundred thousand naira each to grow their business.
The founder/ED, Cefforwomen Mrs Chinyere Chukwudi Zimako, said it was exciting seeing women working hard to earn a living with little or low income business. The theme” Empowering Women for Enterprise Growth”, provides grant for women in business was convened to support women in business.
In her remarks, Zimako said her vision was to empower young women in growing their businesses in the hope that the Chybee Entrepreneurship Foundation will empower over one million women across Africa.
“As an entrepreneur, I started by supplying diesel to hotels and banks and I was consistent to it”.
She maintained that consistency and punctuality are the ingridients to any successful business, and urged every business women to take their duties seriously, adding that she wants more women to be financially stable, support their families and kick against depending on their husbands for everything which she said was not encouraging.
She said “let the men breath”.
According to her, Chybee Entrepreneurship Foundation is empowering women with the sum of one hundred thousand naira each in the first edition and enjoined women to be proud of their business as far as it is legal.
Mrs Zimako emphasized that if you empowered a woman you have empowered a nation. “As the foundation engaged ten women for the first edition which the foundation is praying to have it two or three times in a year, we are also praying for sponsors and partnership”.
When we have sponsors and partners, it will be easier to empower a larger business women.
She noted that as an entrepreneur, she loves women in business and that was what motivates her to dive into such initiative.
She added that John F Kennedy once said that you should ask of what you can do to your country not what your country should do for you.
She thanked the women for making the society proud, said these women here are real women in business and they need to be empowered.
Meanwhile, the state commissioner for humanitarian and girl child entrepreneurship development, Hon Orode Uduaghan advised the beneficiaries to use the money on what it has been given for,
Uduaghan added that women are working very hard now to support the family, frown against any woman that is not doing any thing to support the family. “Though if at all we have any woman doing nothing it will be less percentage”.
Two of the beneficiaries who spoke to The Sun, Chiamaka Marvelous who is into farm produce and Mrs Paulina Uwabunkeonye Okolie who is also into selling of drinks appreciate Chybee Entrepreneurship Foundation that the one hundred thousand naira grant will help them to expand their business.
