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Walmart has announced plans to expand its women’s development programme in the third world, extending a one-year partnership with the poverty charity Care and pledging a further $2million to its development.
The programme, initiated last year, will seek to empower women in Bangladesh, India and Peru through education and job training programmes on farms and in factories.
In Bangladesh, Walmart says the new funding will give 2500 women access to literacy and numeracy programmes, as well as education on health and nutrition. New cashew nut factories owned an operated by women will be created in 18 villages in India, while in Peru Walmart and Care will expand their agricultural and entrepreneurial training to reach 1600 households.
Helene Gayle, president of US-based Care, said Walmart’s support was ‘a testimony to its long-term commitment to provide women with the skills, knowledge and opportunities that will enable them to reshape the future for themselves and their families’.
Women make up about 70 per cent of the world’s one billion people subsisting on less than a dollar a day.
The programme, initiated last year, will seek to empower women in Bangladesh, India and Peru through education and job training programmes on farms and in factories.
In Bangladesh, Walmart says the new funding will give 2500 women access to literacy and numeracy programmes, as well as education on health and nutrition. New cashew nut factories owned an operated by women will be created in 18 villages in India, while in Peru Walmart and Care will expand their agricultural and entrepreneurial training to reach 1600 households.
Helene Gayle, president of US-based Care, said Walmart’s support was ‘a testimony to its long-term commitment to provide women with the skills, knowledge and opportunities that will enable them to reshape the future for themselves and their families’.
Women make up about 70 per cent of the world’s one billion people subsisting on less than a dollar a day.
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