Tag: rural women
#FillTheGap! Esperanza brings hope for female leaders in Peru
Latin America & the Caribbean: Esperanza Dionisio Castillo rose up the ranks and became the only woman in the whole of the Junín region, Peru, to manage a cooperative, guiding the Pangoa Cooperative to unprecedented levels of success.
Read More#FillTheGap! Making queens in Mozambique
Africa & Middle East: Through an entrepreneur recruitment program in Mozambique, Josefina dos Santos Lourenço and 30 others were able to increase their incomes while bringing essential products and services to smallholder farmers.
Read More#FillTheGap! Joining up women for a common goal in Bangladesh
Asia: When Jahanara Begum started out as a Farm Business Advisor (FBA), she faced negative comments and scepticism from her family and community but she proved her doubters wrong.
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