This document discusses the challenges and opportunities facing African women in business. It summarizes that increased access to education, employment opportunities, and technology have empowered more African women to start their own businesses. However, African women business owners still face significant challenges such as lack of access to markets, poor infrastructure, high production costs, and competition from China. The document promotes two organizations, Ethnic Supplies and Let Them Help Themselves, that support African women entrepreneurs through fair trade products, community development projects, and business training programs.

1. African women in business
10 March 2012
Ida Horner

2. Our partners

3. Our partners

4. The products- Sustainable textile
Raw Wild Silk scarves- from Madagascar

5. Baskets from Gahaya Links

6. The condition of African women
• Increased access to • African culture and
education norms
• Employment • access to education
• Business • Family income
• Leaders • Access to contraception
• Technology • property rights
• Personal income • globalisation

7. Business Challenges
• Access to markets • Poor infrastructure
• Access to market • Scaling the enterprise
information • Competition from China
• Production costs • Property rights
• Access to reliable
energy supply

8. • Charitable arm of Ethnic Supplies
• Community development
• Current project- Ruhanga SW Uganda

9. Our achievements so far
• Guest house
• Community school
• Child sponsorship
programme
• Mosquito nets
• Business training –
Reconxille
• Volunteer propgramme

10. Contact details
Tel: 07780703869
Ida@ethnicsupplies.co.uk
Website: www.ethnicsupplies.co.uk
Blog: http://ethnicsupplies.org
Charity website
http://lethemhelpthemselves.org
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