SENEGAL-ECONOMY / Louga: setting up a cooperative of women entrepreneurs transforming the informal economy in rural areas
Women entrepreneurs transforming the informal economy in rural areas, in partnership with the International Labor Office (ILO), set up a cooperative society in Louga on Friday, called the "And liggey" dynamic women of Louga, said Fatima Christiane Ndiaye, ILO Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist.
We have come to support the women of Louga, who have set up an informal production and marketing group using their own resources, to build their capacity in their chosen field," she told journalists at the end of a workshop to set up the Société coopérative des femmes transformatrices de l'économie informelle en milieu rural.she declared in an interview with journalists at the end of a workshop to set up the Société coopérative des femmes entrepreneurs transformatrices de l'économie informelle en milieu rural.
She pointed out that "a total of twenty-one women from the And liggey dynamic women's cooperative held their first constitutive general meeting to elect the Board of Directors of their cooperative society". "These women, who received training in the processing of cereal and detergent products, as well as in the marketing of their products, also workedfor four days on a program of activities designed to strengthen their economic activities and capacities for the first year of their cooperative's life", she noted.
Adiara Fall, President of the "And Liggey" cooperative in Louga, said: "We started with our own resources, after the International Labor Office came to support us in our work. She praised "the ILO's initiative, which not only provided us with guidance and support in setting up our cooperative society, but also gave us the skills we needed to process cereal products. in processing cereal products and detergents, as well as in marketing their products, because we used to make bleach and Madar, but we didn't master soap and cereals".
"This capacity-building came at the right time because there are twenty-one of us women, some of whom were lucky enough to go to school, but almost half are not literate", she pointed out.
Source: aps.sn/
