HERA provides grants and technical support to women entrepreneurs in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to grow their ventures and hire young women to prevent dangerous migration and trafficking. HERA also assists Armenian and Ukrainian refugee women entrepreneurs to restart their businesses. HERA and our affiliates have trained over 1200 women in nine countries and awarded 514 grants to women entrepreneurs. Working on the frontlines, we support women to maintain economic stability.
Each year young women are exploited across international borders and within their own countries. Risk factors include war, unemployment, and economic hardship. Many flee conflict and/or seek to build better and safer lives for themselves and their families. Through force, deception, and coercion, smugglers and traffickers exploit young women's economic vulnerabilities and ambitions. Conflict leads to losses of production and services and women entrepreneurs are often the first to start over.
HERA's supports women entrepreneurs in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to grow their ventures and and employ young women at risk of dangerous migration, trafficking and exploitation. HERA also assists its former grantees fleeing conflict to restart their ventures.
To date HERA has awarded 514 grants to women's ventures in Central and Eastern Europe generating at least 750 new jobs for young women. HERA and its affiliates have trained over 1200 people in nine countries on business skills and/or mentoring. HERA has evaluated 75% of its grantees a year or more later and commissioned retrospective evaluations. Of those evaluated, 96% of the grantees supported by HERA are operating a year or more later and 65% have grown and/or provided new employment.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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