Several underprivileged women have of recent been receiving
training in income generating activities from the founder of Burita Beads.
The
training which is open to commercial sex workers, refugee women from
neighboring towns, women with disabilities, widows, minority like mbororo wonen,
and unemployed women is being offered free. |
Burita
Beads training Session
According to Rita Ngabir Founder of Burita Beads who is the lone
sponsor of the project “each training session lasts for three months” and “at
the end of each session the best are given startup capital in kind.”
Sharing her story recently with the women focused website www.sisterspeak237.com, Rita
Ngabir noted that “Burita beads has gone beyond just selling for profit to
empowering women and girls economically” with a current project called Working
Widows.
Working Widows she detailed “is a project I conceived, to provide
vocational training to unemployed widows in Bamenda between the ages of 18 and
40 years. Hundreds of widows in Cameroon suffer due to high levels of
joblessness and poverty after their husbands, who are often the de factor
breadwinners die. We support the women to engage in the production/sale of
beaded products as a means of fighting poverty.”
Initially started for widows Burita Beads has now expanded to meet
the needs of other women. According to the founder “as time went on we saw the
need to empower other women in need. Some of our partners saw what we were
doing and expressed the need for other women in need to be trained.” We
enlarged our sphere of impact she added “because we strongly believe every woman
needs to be financially empowered.”
About Burita Beads which is a beading company that deals in the
production of beaded products (all beaded accessories.), the Founder says she
started with FCFA20 000 in 2015 and three years after she says “the business still
has much to achieve but I cannot despise how far it’s grown. On the
international market I do have customers in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana and USA.
Locally, my produce is consumed by women and men of all works of life, in more
than 5 Regions of Cameroon.”
Advising women who may want to start a
business but think they don’t have the capital Burita Beads Founder says “Money
is not the greatest asset we need in a business. Having the idea and the
confidence to deliver is the most important to me. While thinking globally
starts locally with the small income you have. I started with just 20.000 Frs.
And because of the passion I have for my business I get recommendations from
many people. Start with what you have, be daring, believe in what you do, and
aim for the best.”