By Andrew B. Conteh
CARE Sierra Leone on 1st February 2022 launched the Solar Entrepreneurs Project at the conference room of the Ministry of Information and Communications.
The project was officially launched by Hawa Deen of the Strategic Communications Unit in the Ministry of Information and Communications.
The project aims to empower women through the use of renewable energy with the key goal of developing profitable and sustainable renewable energy to enable businesses for women through financing, capacity building and enhanced market access.
These businesses include agriculture enterprises focusing on key value chains–rice, palm oil, cassava, cocoa, coffee, fish and other women owned businesses.
The Country Director of CARE, for Sierra Leone and Liberia Dr. Yaikah Jeign Joof in her opening remarks, commended her team, the Ministry of Energy and other partners for gracing the important occasion and expressed delight for the project targeting woman entrepreneurs.
She revealed that the beneficiaries would be empowered through energy and capacitated through renewable energy to create jobs to reduce poverty in their communities.
Dr. Lamin Ibrahim Kamara, Project Director for CARE Sierra Leone, said that the project would benefit 7120 women in seven districts.