Musim Mas Launched Women Smallholders Training Program
SINGAPORE, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Musim Mas Group announced the completion of the first phase of its Women Smallholders Program to provide independent female smallholders with life skills. Developed with academic trainers from the University of North Sumatra (USU), the program offered voluntary training on health and nutrition to over 500 female smallholders and smallholders' wives across three regencies of the Riau region in Indonesia. Musim Mas conducted the training in small batches across the region between March and October 2023, each batch lasting six weeks. The group aims to expand the program in 2024 to include financial literacy and entrepreneurship for home businesses. The group is also open to collaboration opportunities for the next phase of the program.
- An expansion of the group's longstanding Smallholders Program, the first phase covered health and nutrition training; will be expanded to include financial literacy
SINGAPORE, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Musim Mas Group announced the completion of the first phase of its Women Smallholders Program to provide independent female smallholders with life skills. - In 2020, Musim Mas expanded the program to include a train-the-trainers program for Village Extension Officers (VEOs).
- Explained Linda Wati, Women Smallholders Program – Project Leader, Musim Mas.
- The Women Smallholder Program exemplifies the group's commitment, and Musim Mas aims to strengthen the program further by including financial literacy and home-based entrepreneurship training.