Malawi: Women Heart Foundation organized a summit under the name, “Women in business” on Monday. The aim of the summit was to create, connect and conquer ladies through business.
The summit was hosted at Sunbird Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi with several businesswomen from all over the country in attendance. The Founder of Women in Business Organization, Faith Banda thanked all attendants for their support.
She also thanked everyone who bought the ticket for the summit but were unable to attend.
“I’m very happy because the event we had been waiting for has happened and the event was more than I expected. We have been equipped with different skills from our guest speakers,” she said.
One of the guest speakers, Esther Chabuka urged women to connect themselves into business. She also advised that the women in business should sponsor each other and support each other’s en when doing business.
“When doing business choose good friends who can sponsor your business not those who can take your things without paying back the money. Cultivate friends who can give you business ideas,” Chabuka who is known as Ida Chicker Chabs among her peers said.
Ida Chicker Chabs added that women should look for businesses which match with their start-up capital. This way they will be able to avoid investing in business or incurring loans that they will not be able to service.
Another guest speaker, Clara Kamlomo said women could start a business with the material they have at home, citing availability of cookers, fridges and others which would help them to support their family.
“When doing business, learn to respect the customer because they are our bosses and learn to produce good products because it attracts customers, let’s go for whatever we want in life,” she added.
Kamlomo encouraged women to invest by buying land or a house that would help them in future and they have to ignore lifestyles that destroy money.
In her remarks, Dorothy Kingston popularly known as Cash Madam who was the guest speaker applauded Women in Business Heart Foundation for the summit, noting that it indeed had the potential of connecting women, creating and conquering through business interactions.
She said the platform would help the women to build, thrive and grow entrepreneurial skills in their daily lives.
“As we know that when we are supported by men, we become victims in society because people believe that success is predominantly by men which is a lie,” Kingston challenged.
She asked women not to look down on themselves but to work hard regardless of prevailing culture and norms.