Integra Association Bulgaria

Encouraging entrepreneurship among disadvantaged women

Our target audience or who are the disadvantaged women? The target group for this project is “disadvantaged women” or “women at risk”. By women at risk, we mean single mothers, divorcees with young children, refugee women, women who are victims of domestic violence, women with alcoholic or chronically unemployed partners, women who are not able to re-enter the work force after maternity leave, women with disabilities, and women from ethnic (mainly Roma) minorities.

Purpose of the Project : to help disadvantaged women with entrepreneurial spirit who are struggling with poverty and unemployment by providing them with business training and consulting how to start a small business as well as with a micro-credit opportunity.

Main Activities :

Three-days Business Training Seminar on “Basics of business”
Providing a micro - credit for starting or developing a small business
Free business consultations and monitoring for the period of the micro-credit payments.
Organizing a monthly Ladies' Business Club