Fifty women in Tema undergo business training
A business skills development and training programme has been held in Tema for 50 selected businesswomen in the metropolis.
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The programme, an initiative of the Coca Cola Bottling Company Limited, which was begun in 2012 and is part of a global project by the company, dubbed: “5by20”, aims at empowering five million women by 2020 to be entrepreneurs.
So far, about 3,500 women in Ghana have been trained to empower them to become successful entrepreneurs. The plan targets women in co-operatives, trading groups, farming associations and widows.
The training focused on exploring business opportunities for start-ups and ways of consolidating and expanding existing businesses.
hey were prepared on the stages of starting a business, determining the market, how to budget and how to track income, expenses and inventory.
The Public Affairs and Communications Director for Coca Cola, Mr Augustus Antwi, said the company considered the training programme as a corporate social responsibility.
Programme participants desirous of selling products of the Coca Cola Company were provided with packages expected to set them up in business, including company merchandise and selling containers.
A participant in the training, Mrs Elizabeth Baba, commended Coca Cola for the opportunity of partaking in the course. She said she had gained clear understanding of the way businesses ought to be run.
