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Unlocking the potential of female entrepreneurship

June 10, 2015 Melanie Hawken
Susan Mashibe, founder of VIA Aviation (Tanzania)

Susan Mashibe, founder of VIA Aviation (Tanzania)

Source: The Guardian | by Anthony Demetriou and Nathan Gamester | 10 June 2015

Entrepreneurship can be an empowering experience that has impacts beyond economic development. Barriers need to be removed so more African women have tools to become entrepreneurs. Success stories like that of Susan Mashibe are still the exception rather than the rule, but it offers a model of what can happen when women have access to the tools for successful entrepreneurship.

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