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Women Enterprise Initiative2024

A cooperative that outlasted the grant

N.E.

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A group of eleven traders received start-up grants and eight weeks of training. What they built afterwards was a rotating savings scheme that still runs.

The cooperative now buys stock in bulk for its members and rents shared storage, which has cut costs for all of them.

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