ISLAMABAD: Business Community in Pakistan on Friday asked the federal and provincial governments to extend their support to flood-hit businesswomen in rural parts of the country.
According to the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) a large number of businesswomen have been affected in flood-hit areas due to which women entrepreneurs are facing many hardships
While addressing the 15th Annual Rural Women Leadership Conference 2022 organized by ICCI in collaboration with the National Commission on the Status of Women and Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, ICCI said they are ready to connect the women entrepreneurs of rural areas with online platforms like Amazon. He added that this could make their access to international markets easier to improve exports and earn more foreign exchange for the country.
He assured that ICCI can organize exhibitions of the products of rural businesswomen to showcase their potential for trade export.
The women from all the four provinces of Pakistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir attended the event.
On the occasion, Nilofar Bakhtiar, Chairperson, National Commission on the Status of Women said that economic empowerment and financial inclusion of women was the best option to reduce poverty and promote prosperity in Pakistan.
Many women entrepreneurs from rural areas of Pakistan shared their success stories and highlighted the issues being faced by them in running business activities in rural areas.
