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| | | | | Women Entrepreneurship (WE) Through its support of the Women Entrepreneurship Program (WE Program), GE Money Bank Philippines upholds GE Money's global focus on the financial empowerment of women. The WE Program aims to educate and inspire young Filipina women to be enterprising leaders of society, and to address the problem of unemployment that college graduates encounter due to job scarcity. It also seeks to provide a viable option for job seekers to become job creators through a heighted awareness of entrepreneurship. These goals are achieved partly through the development of teaching tools to supplement the syllabi of entrepreneurship subjects in women colleges. The WE Program is conducted in partnership with Let's Go Foundation. To learn more about the WE Program and Let's Go Foundation, please visit http://www.womenentrepreneurship.org. Latest News on the WE Program and GE Money Bank Philippines Go, Girl - Into Business 1 March 2009, Inquirer.net FILIPINO households where only the husbands earn a living while their wives are full-time homemakers are rapidly becoming an extinct demographics. Ladies, Start Your Business 19 Feb 2009, HerWord.com "It won't fly if you don't try." These were the words of 23-year old Renee King as she encouraged fellow women entrepreneurs to press on with their ventures and passion. Renee and her partner Caroline Cua make up Tamang Timpla Foods, Inc., which recently bagged the Cartier Women's Initiative Award in France for the business plan of their product, Kusina Klassics Kalamansi Squeeze. Cartier Women's Initiative is an international business plan competition that recognizes the most innovative, sustainable, and socially responsible business ideas. GE Money Bank donates GE Profile Refrigerators to Charitable Organizations 29 Jan 2009, Business Mirror Several charities in Metro Manila recently received GE Profile Refrigerators from GE Money Bank Philippines as part of the Bank's commitment to address the needs of communities where it operates. Finding Fun in Finance 29 Jan 2009, Inquirer.net This is an interesting piece from one of our reporters: When I was still taking entrepreneurship and statistic classes, I yawned a lot. I was never a huge fan of numbers and finance terms. Board Game Teaches Players the Basics of Finance 20 Jan 2009, BusinessMirror Online AFTER finishing college, a majority of women want to start their own business or be self-employed, the problem is, they have no experience taking part in a formal business management or entrepreneurship training course required to understand the basics of business operations. | | | | | |
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