ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ICCI) has urged the federal and provincial governments to provide support to businesswomen of flood-hit areas to revive their businesses.
While addressing the 15th Annual Rural Women Leadership Conference 2022 organized by ICCI in collaboration with National Commission on the Status of Women and Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, ICCI said that ICCI is ready to connect the women entrepreneurs of rural areas with online platforms like Amazon.
He said so that they could get easy access to international markets to improve exports and earn more foreign exchange for the country.
Women from four provinces of Pakistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir attended the event.
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 the country.
Sameena Nazir, Founding President, PODA said that women entrepreneurs in rural areas were exporting their products to many countries, but the destruction of their businesses due to recent floods had created financial problems for them.
She stressed that all stakeholders including the government should support them in reviving their businesses.
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.
