Cape Town – After participating in a 12-month
entrepreneurship programme with the
First Lady Chamber (FLC), 10 strong
female entrepreneurs have been nominated for the top three prizes in the
first Annual First Lady Chamber Business of the Year Awards, which will
be held at the Waterfront in October.
Specific Key Performance Indicators have been established to evaluate
the performance of each nominee.
On September 9, they submitted their
business plans based on their learnings
and findings in the programme.
The nominees are Amina Abrahams,
Aneeka Moosa, Abashiya Achilles,
Ferouza Hendricks, Gadija Khan,
Rushdiyah Narker, Tarryn Abrahams,
Tasneem Galant, Zaitoon Ebrahim and
Khadeeja Samsodien.
FLC was started as a small business supporting initiative in 2015 by Farah
Moosa and Fatima Wise. Since then it
has grown with a total of 16 members
on their annual programme, alongside
500 women as part of their broader
network at the FLC.
These powerful
women from different industries all
came together for the purpose of developing #strongertogether.
FLC’s mission is to provide a platform for women entrepreneurs to feel
safe and supported, cultivating a unified and collaborative unit of women
who can depend on each other for
assistance that leads to entrepreneurial
development and growth.
The female empowerment platform
educates its members in six key business skills over the course of a year:
marketing, branding, business law,
accounting and compliance, business
profile and strategy, and pitch presentations and public speaking.
FLC will be hosting the awards
evening on October 12 at Workshop 17
at the V&A Waterfront.
The event will
celebrate the 2019 winner of the First
Lady Chamber Business of the Year and
highlight the top 5 businesses in their
programme this year.
Each member will be recognised
with personalised certificates of completion. For details contact Moosa or
Wise at info@thefirstladychamber.
co.za