The Entrepreneurs Associates (tEA) conducted their “Uplifting Women Street Vendors cum Specialized Accelerated Intensive Learning (SAIL) Training,” program for the women street vendors on January 28 2024 at the VDB Building of Zhavame Village in Pfutsero District. The program commenced during the early hours of the day where a footfall of 112 women attended the program, informed a press release issued by tEA.
The program was chaired by Mhechieteu Tero, Community Mobilizer & Skills Trainer at tEA. Liarhu Movi, a member of Women Society blessed the program with a heartfelt invocation. It was then followed by Cukhoyi Chiero, the zonal Head of East Zone at tEA, who spoke on the origination of tEA and its many activities and services. Rone Movi, a retired Teacher & Vendor began her keynote address by sharing the innumerable benefits of farming and vending. Movi encouraged the attendees to take up intercropping and focus on crops such as Jobs tears, which has brought her a lucrative source of income over the years. She emphasized on the fertility of their land and to leverage it to their advantage in hopes to generate remunerative income.
Atsulie Chirhah, Project Associate of tEA conducted the SAIL (Specialized Accelerated Intensive Learning) Training in an interactive session. A total of 30 women were coached on crucial business concepts and financial exercises such as branding, bookkeeping, budgeting, and E-Payments to scale up their businesses.
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A vote of thanks was delivered by Votsole Krocha, A VLO Facilitator where she expressed her delight to The Entrepreneurs Associates for a conducive learning session on financial literacy. Krocha expressed optimism to engage in future skills training activities with the organization in the future. The program came to a close with a prayer by Prukhru Movi, Deaconess of Zhavame Baptist Church.
The Uplifting Women Street Vendors Program is a flagship program of The Entrepreneurs Associates, launched in October 2017, to empower women involved in the network of marketing farm produce. The program is uniquely to tEA and one of a kind in the entire NER India. It engages with women street vendors, producers who also sell their yields, and aggregators who link rural products with the urban markets.
Till date, tEA has trained and worked with 7000 women street vendors in Nagaland, Manipur, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh, with plans to branch out to other neighboring states in the upcoming days. Under the program, tEA has been providing training on financial & business management, skills training, health and legal services, mentorship and linkages to markets and Zero Interest Loans. tEA hopes that by 2025, 10,000 women street vendors will be impacted under the program.
