Pathways for Entrepreneurship: A Focus on Women and Youth

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Speaker 1: Right, Speaker 1: good morning Speaker 1: Africa, Speaker 1: good morning Canada Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us even on this Speaker 1: webinar today. Thank you for being part of what we're trying to do even in partnership with the McGill University and also the MasterCard Foundation as well as our partners at Nestle. Thank you for being part of this webinar today talking about pathways to entrepreneurship, Speaker 1: focus on women and youth. Speaker 1: Why focus on women and youth you might ask? We have to leverage on the African continental free trade area agreements that talks about even giving priority Speaker 1: opportunities Speaker 1: even to young people, the youth and the women. So today on this Speaker 1: webinar Speaker 1: we're privileged to have a distinguished set of panelists Speaker 1: but before I go into the panel Speaker 1: introductions I'd like to give the floor to the President of the Canada-Africa Speaker 1: Chamber of Business, Mr. Gareth Blore, who's been very phenomenal even supporting this and making this happen. Speaker 1: And so over to you, Gareth. Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Speaker 2: and a massive congratulations Speaker 2: to all involved in this event today. It's truly tremendous to see a culmination Speaker 2: of a partnership with 1 of the world's leading institutions right here in Canada, McGill University, Speaker 2: combined with some of the foremost experts who are gonna be with us on the panel today. I'd like to particularly thank Dr. Nii Adi on behalf of the board, the members of the Chamber and all of our partners for your role initially years ago, beginning planting the seeds that has culminated in certainly 1 of the most active partnerships in our 28 year history as an organization. Speaker ...