Sinapi Aba Women’s Mentorship Programme, an initiative that trains and supports women entrepreneurs, has been noted to profit 300 women in various business start-ups.
According to Joyce Owusu-Dabo, Chief Programmes Director of Sinapi Aba Women’s Mentorship Programme, the programme aims at empowering women entrepreneurs to be change agents in their communities.
“…As part of the programme, we want to make sure that these women are empowered through the knowledge we give to them and then they are also financially not excluded, so we ensure they are included.
“There is equity and equality in the way we handle the women in our businesses and then aside from that, we want to ensure that they become change agents in our communities because in our communities we see many women there.”
Joyce Owusu-Dabo
The bank, Madam Owusu-Dabo, said continues to train the clients in a practical and systematic manner.
“…We find it worthy to use our women as tools to reach the larger community that we have.…. We believe in the holistic transformation of our clients, giving them inclusive financial services. We believe that the two legs make the person stronger and better to sustain and then grow their businesses.
“…The Mentorship four is made up of three hundred clients, handhold them, build their capacity, skills and knowledge to enhance them with the ability to manage their businesses and manage it well.”
Joyce Owusu-Dabo
Customers of the bank have been the targets in its capacity-building drive but management explains that more women need empowerment, hence this initiative.
“…We tend to have an appetite for women, because of the class of people we serve. It so happens that a lot of women happen to be in the micro, small and medium space. So we tend to have a lot of women, and so we realized that these women also are lacking basic support and knowledge that will help them better and build up their businesses.”
Joyce Owusu-Dabo
About the Sinapi Aba Women’s Mentorship Programme
The Women’s Mentorship Programme kick started in 2020 and has since built a lot of mental capacities in women for business, as well as a platform for invigorating women in business to become agents of change in their respective domains.
The initiative trains and supports women entrepreneurs, who are predominantly customers of the financial institution and dependents in their operational areas, with both financial and technical skills.
The six-month training program that builds the capacity of the mentees and provides them with the needed skills to either start, grow or expand their businesses, also brings together experienced women entrepreneurs in selected fields to serve as mentors for potential entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Officials say the move which started three years ago, also serves as the bank’s corporate social responsibility in its operational area.
Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans has been creative in the way it provides capacity-building training to its clients.
The Women Mentorship Programme, since its inception, has served as a platform where women are used as a tool to empower each other, economically empower themselves and ensure knowledge is transferred to help build their communities.
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