Laundry is a very essential aspect of daily living most especially to women since they are known to be the “housekeepers”. However, when it comes to delving into the act as a business venture, many shy away from it. The business of dry cleaning is often seen as a demeaning one and people that summon the courage to go on with the business are often looked down on.
The Amazons Watch Magazine’s online poll to gauge African financial institutions with the Best Women Supportive programmes and policies ended on Thursday with Tanzania Women’s Bank Limited (TWB) maintaining the vanguard position as the Most Women-Friendly Bank in Africa, closely trailed by the First Bank Nigeria Plc. TWB, Africa’s first women bank incorporated in 2007 with a passion and commitment towards female entrepreneurs, empowering women economically and socially, polled 30.8% of the total votes cast; while First Bank, Nigeria’s largest financial services institution, established in 1894, which has over the years demonstrated commitment to promote women empowerment with women-supportive products, secured 23%. Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) maintained the third position with 22% of the total votes cast; and the duo of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTB) Nigeria and Diamond Bank Plc Nigeria sit at the fourth position with 10% at a tie. The Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO), one…
By Ehis Ayere Few days to the close of voting, Tanzania Women’s Bank (TWB) has taken the lead as the Best Women Supportive Bank in Africa, with programmes, products and services that have significantly empowered and impacted the financial lives of women, providing them with the ability, opportunity, and skill to generate and control their own incomes. TWB polled 25% of the total votes cast, closely trailed by Bank of Industry Nigeria, with 16.5% of votes cast. Click here to cast your vote. The Amazons Watch Magazine launched the poll November 17 with the aim of recognizing and promoting the Top 5 Women Supportive Banks in Emerging Economies (Africa); with programmes and services that have significantly empowered women, increasing women’s access to financial services, improving the well-being of women, and bolstering gender equality, with notable impacts, transcending beyond the individual woman level to improvement in the standard of living…
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The Amazons Watch Magazine invites you to participate in the online Poll for the Top 5 Best Women Supportive Financial Institutions in Emerging Economies (Africa) aimed at recognizing and promoting the financial institutions with the best programmes, products and services tailored towards increasing financing for women in emerging economies. The poll, which is one of the Magazine’s strategic public engagement tools, aimed at engendering healthy competition, peer review and promoting good women supportive financial services, will be organized in four (4) phases across the regions of developing countries, beginning with the African region, followed by Asia, Middle-East, and then South-America. Women make up about half of the world’s population, but are unfortunately disproportionately burdened by work and poverty in some developing countries, excluded from the political, economic, and social power structures. One of the identified ways women are today being significantly empowered is providing them with the ability, opportunity,…
Appropriate healthcare should be top on very woman’s list as this will determine how well she executes her functions in the home, the work place, and the larger society. In the same vein, exercise and healthy eating habits are also key factors in the functioning of our system. Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. This disease is such that, something goes wrong with your immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs (“foreign invaders,” like the flu). Normally our immune system produces proteins called antibodies that protect the body from these invaders. Autoimmune means your immune system cannot tell the difference between these foreign invaders and your body’s…
Rania Al Yassin was born on August 31, 1970. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the American University of Cairo in 1991. She applied this, first, to a banking career in Jordan and, later, to the information technology sector.
