Entrepreneurship & Digital Skills
Skills only pay when they meet customers.
A trained woman with no customers is still a woman with no income. This is the bridge. We work through pricing that covers real costs, records simple enough to actually keep, a phone used as a storefront, and the language to sell without apologising. Where a business is ready to scale, we make warm introductions to partners who fund and buy — rather than leaving her to find the door herself.
What the program looks like
How we deliver this work.
- 01
Business basics: pricing, costing, record-keeping and simple cash flow.
- 02
Digital literacy: smartphones, WhatsApp for business, basic online selling.
- 03
Marketing and storytelling for products, services and personal brand.
- 04
Warm introductions to iUPSHIFT, FRC digital training and livelihoods programmes.
Who it's for
Who this cohort is built for.
- Graduates of SHE-Merchandise and other skills programs
- Women running informal home-based businesses
- Youth-led micro-enterprises in the settlement
Outcomes so far
What this program has delivered.
Ready to move?
Back a business cohort
Support women who have completed skills training to build real businesses, reach customers, keep simple records and access the seed funding they need to grow.
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