AS Tanzania aspires to become a semi-industrial economy, women entrepreneurs are meeting in Dar es Salaam on Saturday to strategize on how they will take a leading role in the industrialization drive.
The Voice of Women Entrepreneurs in
Tanzania (VoWET) president Maida Waziri has advised they believe that
women must play a leading roles in establishing industries across the
country.
“We must take advantage of the situation
to strategise on how to raise capital for establishing industries. We
need to jump on the bandwagon now,” said Ms Waziri.
She noted, adding that women must take
advantage of that spirit, to open up factories across the country, for
their own good. Time has come, for women to stop thinking that they
cannot be able to own their own factories and brands, to enhance value
for Tanzania made produce, she noted.
She said that the 3rd Championing Women
Leaders in Business Summit slated for would look at industrialising
Tanzania, and how can women be at the heart of the whole drive. Women
owned business should play key role in the whole drive, and should be
empowered to participate.
“Time and again, we say we have no
capital… but if we organise ourselves, if we come together in every
village, every ward, every district, every region, it will be easy to
raise capital and build the factories needed to lead to a Tanzania made
industrial revolution,” Maida, who is also the Managing Director of
leading women construction company in Tanzania, Ibra Contractors
Limited, noted.
The explored for example the possibility
of every Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO) in their
localities coming up with factories to enhance productivity and add
value.
“There are many ideas we need to explore
and come up with concrete women in business agenda that will support
the government drive to industrialise our motherland,” she noted. She
said VoWET created Championing Women Leaders in Business Summit as an
annual event to encourage and inspire women to succeed in business.
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