BRAC Bank Limited has organized ‘TARA Business Owners’ Fair' to promote products and services of women entrepreneurs of Bangladesh.
This is the first such fair by TARA to support enterprising women entrepreneurs. A total of 22 women entrepreneurs put up stall at the fair during November 15-16, 2019 at Little Steps Pre School.
Ms. Farzana Khan, General Manager, SME Foundation; Ms. Sangita Khan, Treasurer, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ms. Rojina Akter Mostafi, Joint Director, SME and Special Programmes Department, Bangladesh Bank; and Selim R. F. Hussain, Managing Director and CEO, BRAC Bank; formally inaugurated the fair Gulshan on November 15, 2019. Ms. Bilquis Jahan, Head of HR, BRAC Bank; and Mehruba Reza, Head of Women’s Banking Segment, TARA, BRAC Bank; were also present.
The participating women entrepreneurs took part in Babson College Women Business Owners’ Training earlier this year. Earlier in July 2019 A group of resource persons from Babson College, an entrepreneurial powerhouse often ranked as the most prestigious entrepreneurship college in the US, and FMO, a Dutch financial investment firm specializing in financing businesses and projects, conducted a four-day extensive training for 35 women businesswomen. The training is aimed at facilitating women entrepreneurs in developing and enriching entrepreneurial and managerial skills in order to help them expand and sustain their businesses.
On the occasion, Selim R. F. Hussain said: We not only support businesses - we finance them with tremendous amount of passion. We also enthusiastically promote women entrepreneurs through our comprehensive women-centred proposition, ‘TARA’. Our tailored-made solutions are empowering the women, giving them economic freedom and bringing them into the mainstream financial system. We will continue to organize such customer engagement programme to create market opportunities for the women entrepreneurs.”
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