A woman who needed healthy food for her young son used her ingenuity to place herself on the path of success by starting her own business. Today, she is an entrepreneur with big plans for the future.
Aditi Madan went from a TechnoServe business training program to becoming the first woman entrepreneur on Shark Tank India. Here, this food business visionary shares her journey to national success after overcoming challenges and learning how to “unlearn” what she thought she knew.
Determined to support her family, Dossi Degui turned to TechnoServe for better business skills. Now she sells her artisanal soap around the country--and can't keep up with demand.
After separating from her husband, Albertina Chirindza turned to an innovative digital savings product to help her children get ahead. It’s helped her to diversify her business, buy land, and send her daughter to college.
A business skills training program helped Gilda Lourenço find a way to care for her family while helping her small business survive the pandemic. And now she’s ready for more.
Have you or someone you know faced any of these gender-specific career challenges? TechnoServe is helping women overcome these challenges through a variety of programs around the world.
Can an innovative approach to teaching school students also transform how we train entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers around the world?
Even though she would rather be cooking delicious meals, a chef in Mozambique works to revamp the business side of things to keep the food flowing out of her kitchen.
Ermelinda Vargas Paye, owner of Hostel Mary in the city of Moquegua, Peru, won’t let COVID-19 steal her spirit – or her livelihood. A lifelong attitude of determination, and business training from TechnoServe, prepared her to lead her enterprise through the pandemic.
In East Africa, formal employment opportunities are often scarce, and entrepreneurship presents a path toward economic independence for many young women and men. TechnoServe is helping small shop owners in Kenya, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire become more profitable by connecting them with the knowledge, training, and tools they need to become successful retailers.
