14 budding female agrientrepreneurs from the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) have been granted a place in the November 2015 intake of the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs.
14 budding female agrientrepreneurs from the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) have been granted a place in the November 2015 intake of the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs.
A purely online program, the YPARD mentees will spend the next 12 months working virtually one-on-one with a mentor to achieve key business goals.
The YPARD women who were accepted into this program come from across Africa and South Asia and have a variety of different business interests.
“I believe that the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs is one of the best platform for promotion and empowerment of women who want to be self-dependent," says Smita Shrestha, Founder and Research Director of Shrestha Seeds Pvt. Ltd in Nepal and one of the YPARD mentees.
"Also, being mentored by experts who are already in the field of agribusiness promotion especially for women and sharing their experience and experience of my fellow mentees will give me support, strength, confidence and knowledge to attain the vision that our company has envisioned for a sustainable Nepal in vegetable crop production," Smita says.
Mentees will build their business skills and digital literacy through the online mentoring program for young women entrepreneurs online trainings, which have been developed in partnership with some of the world's biggest organisations such as Google, Facebook, UN Women and Accenture.
YPARD will soon be opening calls for the March intake. Female YPARD members from Southeast Asia and Latin America are strongly encouraged to apply. Check www.ypard.net/mentoring for more information soon!
In the meantime, meet our November intake mentees (profiles will be uploaded over the coming weeks):