A local youth empowerment organisation, the Young Zimbabweans Business Platform (YZBP) is running for the international HIVOS Social Innovation award with a project that seeks to minimise the vulnerability of homeless girls and young women mirco-entrepreneurs by creating financial freedom for them.
The inaugural Hivos award aims to recognize organisations using non-traditional ways of dealing with discrimination, inequality, abuse of power and environmental degradation and is meant to encourage new solutions for social change by supporting innovative ideas and practices that expand and defend freedom or create productive ecosystems that sustain human progress.
YZBP’s project Women “Can-Do” is set to create “to encourage mutual empowerment through business, thereby reducing donor dependence.
According to the write-up on the Hivos website, YZBP’s project will set up an agricultural value addition plant and information centre within the locale of the rural setting where women local micro-entrepreneurs are` already known for selling vegetables and fruits.
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