Entrepreneurs, a USAID funded project, will expand market opportunities for micro and small entrepreneurs in Pakistan through impacting a minimum of 120,000 entrepreneurs of whom 75 per cent will be women. Out of these, 6,000 (at least 80 per cent women) will be catered by Hashoo Foundation being an implementing Partner in the project. The project aims to improve micro enterprises in dairy through improving their production capacity via better livestock management techniques, establishment of links to product and service input suppliers and by assisting in the creation of an efficient value chain for the marketing of dairy products. In this connection, Hashoo Foundation organized a two day Orientation Workshop for the project at Bahawalpur. Rafique Gundal, District Livestock Officer, Bahawalpur was the chief guest at the certificate distribution ceremony. “The initiation of the project is expected to go a long way in improving the situation of the livestock and dairy production in the district. The district has a lot of potential, and the people are extremely hardworking. The only factor hampering the growth of this sector in the district was lack of training and capacity, so Hashoo Foundation is addressing a very critical and important need through its trainings”, said the chief guest.
