The scheme offers qualified applicants a maximum amount of GMD 250,000, and the minimum is GMD 50,000 per application.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment has developed a program to keep female entrepreneurs in the field of horticulture and fashion running in the face of the pandemic.
The Ministry of Trade in the press release said that “SheTradeGambia” program is a collaborative initiative with the International Trade Center, the National Association of Cooperative Credit Union of the Gambia and with support of the Gambia Women Chamber of Commerce.
The “SheTradeGambia” mini-grant scheme aims at tackling the problem of access to credit identified as one of the most militating bottlenecks faced by female entrepreneurs to set up and grow their businesses.
According to the Ministry of Trade, the opportunity exists for female entrepreneurs in horticulture and fashion identified as “SheTrades” companies to have access to finance to strengthen their business capacities, investment, manufacturing of clothing and production of vegetables.
“SheTradesGambia” is facilitating the acquisition of equipment, materials, and licenses and other critical business inputs and asset for start-ups and individual setting up of their businesses.
Director of Operations, Drug Law Enforcement Agency – The Gambia (DLEAG), Ebrima Drammeh, alias Jim Drammeh, yesterday admitted before the TRRC that the cover-up in the killings of West African Migrants was not based on national security but a shame.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GiEPA) Ousainou Senghore, has been elected as the new Vice President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Promotion Organizations (TPO) Network.
Muhammed S Bah, President Gambia Press Union– The Gambia Press Union is concerned by comments made by Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the UDP, describing a Star FM talk show host as someone who dislikes his party and members of the Mandinka ethnic group.
A circulating video that is believed to have emanated from Baba Jah alias ‘Seeing Chapachuli’, insulting 2021 Presidential Candidate Essa Mbye Faal ended up with a gang of men intervening to defend Mr. Faal.
