Kinshasa: GRAME Foundation equips 200 women with skills and kits to boost micro-entrepreneurship

In Kinshasa, the GRAME Foundation has empowered around 200 women and young girls with enhanced entrepreneurship and financial education. The initiative, which concluded on July 19, provided participants with free training in practical fields like sewing, aesthetics, and agri-food processing.

Graduates received certificates and startup kits to launch their socio-economic activities. The program's core objective is to transform the potential of Congolese women, often relegated to informal "survival" economies, into active contributors to the capital's economic fabric.

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the stakes go beyond simple reintegration: it is about durably extracting these women from pure subsistence logic.

During the intensive session, beneficiaries learned crucial business management skills, including savings mechanisms, credit access, cost calculation, and commercial negotiation. They were also introduced to modern management tools like the Business Model Canvas to structure informal ideas into profitable micro-enterprises.

Julie Nsuele, president of the GRAME Foundation, stated that the program's goal extends beyond mere reintegration. It aims to permanently lift these women out of subsistence living by providing them with technical know-how, financial literacy, and startup materials. This empowers them to build lasting financial autonomy and sustainably support their families.

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By providing them with both technical know-how, financial culture, and startup materials, the organization intends to give them the means to build real financial autonomy and sustainably meet their families' needs.