Woman Emancipate Yourself Foundation

Organisation that help women to unleash their potential and recognise their talents and groom them into entrepreneurship. Women are more likely to use the profits from their businesses to send their children to school, to improve their families’ living conditions and nutrition, and to expand their businesses They use their profits to better the lives for their children, women help stop the generational cycle of poverty Entrepreneurship is key to women’s empowerment Why do we have fewer women entrepreneurs? Only 38% of South Africa’s established businesses are women-owned (FNB 2011 White Paper on Female Entrepreneurship) GEM 2011: men in South Africa are 1.5 to 1.6 times more likely than women to be involved in early stage entrepreneurial ventures Female entrepreneurs make up roughly 1/3 of all entrepreneurs worldwide. “Only two things can solve the problems this country faces…and that is education and entrepreneurship” – Dr. Vincent Maphai