Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:15:12 +0000 BY MAILESI BANDA RURAL women entrepreneurs are the key to economic growth, WECREATE Zambia executive director Nambula Kachumi has said. Ms. Kachumi said the highest potential of business growth and development could be found in remote areas of the country. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation, she said rural women had the potential to contribute to the economic growth of the country if they were given enough knowledge and financial support. She appealed to money lending institutions to help women access loans and financial services to expand their businesses. “The highest potential of successful business could actually take place in rural areas; women from this part of the country once given the knowledge and the financial support could have big businesses,’’ she said. She explained that women-led enterprises had the challenge of limited access to financial services and that this made women fail to have assets […]
