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4,000 Entrepreneurs To Be Created Among Hardcore Poor Women By 2012
SEPANG, March 17 (Bernama) -- The government targets to create 4,000 women entrepreneurs among the hardcore poor, who are those with a household monthly income of less than RM440, by 2012.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said this was one of the measures taken to move 44,643 people out of hardcore poverty.
She said to date, 1,400 names had been identified for the entrepreneurial programme carried out with the cooperation of 18 ministries and government agencies, including Tekun Nasional, Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM) and Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation Malaysia (SME Corp. Malaysia).
"They will be given assistance in the form of capital and training, and the fields they will venture into include catering and cottage industries like making handicraft," she said after the Avon Awards function, here, on Wednesday.
"They will have to earn at least RM3,000 for them to be recognised as entrepreneurs under our scheme." She said each participant of the programme would be closely monitored for at least three months.
Shahrizat also encouraged the private sector, especially direct-selling companies like Avon, to assist the government achieve the target. "With programmes like Avon's, it is easy for women to do business and take care of their home and children at the same time," she said. -- BERNAMA
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