Paris, France: Ms. Tara Uzra Dawood, President, Dawood Global Foundation – LADIESFUND, visited the Pakistan Embassy in France, and met Acting Ambassador to France Mr. Amjad Qazi. They discussed developing linkages and collaboration between Pakistani and French fashion industry. In the meeting discuss women’s economic empowerment, education, trade, and incubation.
Dawood Global Foundation and LADIESFUND Promoting quality education, healthcare and social enterprise with a special focus on women, minorities, youth and the disabled through establishing and supporting institutions, including focus on all types of disaster relief, that ensure participation of vulnerable sections of society in the economy.
LADIESFUND® was established in 2007 as an initiative to provide financial security to women and to promote and train women entrepreneurs. It aims to integrate the entrepreneurial needs based on the economic and social aspects of the local communities, with respect to greater women participation in the workforce. It also has an Educate a Girl initiative that has just created online e-coding and continues its in person vocational training, hosts entrepreneurial training’s, speed net-workers and networking gatherings, has distributed 6,000 food rations, planted 1,000 trees, launched the Karachi Night Market, trained women in supply chain management, nominates women for loans through the State Bank loan schemes, and is striving to distribute 10,000 wheelchairs across Pakistan.
