The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), together with The Coca-Cola Company, on Wednesday celebrated the upskilling of 25 000 female micro entrepreneurs in South Africa, achieved through the entities’ project to empower women entrepreneurs through a joint programme aimed at promoting women’s economic empowerment globally. Addressing an audience of women-owned small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs), UN Women South Africa multicountry office representative Anne Githuku-Shongwe noted that, four years ago, the UN and Coca-Cola initiated the programme in South Africa, Egypt and Brazil.
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