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Empower Her Through Innovation: 15 refugee women and girls certified

Three days of training for refugee women and girls, as part of the Migration Summit 2024.

Refugee women taking notes during the Empower Her Through Innovation training, a facilitator standing by the projector

From 15 to 17 July 2024, the facilitators, among them Deutcha Laure, Djounang Axel and Maliago Ingrid, covered developing a business idea, market research, financial forecasting, digital marketing on Facebook and Instagram, and business psychology. Attendance grew from 8 on the first day to 15 on each of the next two days.

15 refugee women and girls were certified and left with a business idea, a method to test it and their own social media business pages. A WhatsApp group keeps participants and trainers in contact.

The second mental health campaign of BRIGHT, with 45 participants, took place during the training.

Participants writing at their desks during the training, photographs on the walls of the room
At the BRIGHT centre in Efoulan.