Global News by Tag: entrepreneurship
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA – Arifa Jan, 27, is striving to infuse life into the traditional craft of making namdas, rugs created from felted wool. In the process, she is also realizing her dream of becoming an entrepreneur, a dream that has been traditionally out of reach for women in Kashmir.
LAGOS, NIGERIA – More than 200 people convened on International Women’s Day this month to promote entrepreneurship among women in Nigeria.
Entrepreneur Jibola Tobi Lawal, the chief organizer of the event, says she has never been in "paid employment" – a term she defines as working for someone else – aside from the compulsory one-year service to the nation that she fulfilled in 1988.
NAIROBI, KENYA – Hellena Wanjiku, 29, lives in Wanyee, an area west of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, with her sister and brother-in-law. She works as a hairdresser and manages one of the couple’s salons. But she says that recent power cuts have hurt business.
“Electricity is central to the thriving of my business – heating water, powering the radio, which is for entertaining my clients, hair drying and styling,” Wanjiku says with a loud sigh.
ACCRA, GHANA – Cecil Ato Kwamena Dadzie, 21, converged with other young people from across the continent at the African Youth and Governance Conference this month in Accra, Ghana’s capital.
Dadzie, a Ghana ambassador for Voices of Future World, a project that aims to increase youth participation in public debate, says the conference provides the opportunity to network with other young people from various countries and discuss youth development issues.
LAGOS, NIGERIA – When the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducted a 22-nation survey last spring, Nigeria was the only nation in which more than half of respondents, 54 percent, said women should not have equal rights with men.
“Many things are working against us in Nigeria,” says Fatima Aliko Mohammed, one of three representatives of Nigeria at the April 2010 Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship called for by U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.