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Article

8 Mar 2014

Author:
Sara Aggour, Daily News Egypt

Coca-Cola aims to empower 4,000 Egyptian women by 2016

In the coming two years, the 5by20 programme for empowering women, launched by Coca-Cola...will expand in Egypt to include 4,000 women...The 5by20 global initiative aims to economically empower 5 million women entrepreneurs across the company’s value chain by 2020. The initiative helps women through providing access to business skills, financial services, assets and support networks of peers and mentors. Currently over 1,250 Egyptian women are participating in the micro-business projects in the initiative...Women participating in the programme undergo intensive training which equips them with bookkeeping skills and helps strengthen their business, communication, and financial skills...