PlaNet Finance, the global non-profit microfinance organisation, says its shea butter project in northern Ghana has employed 3,500 women so far, and will create at least 1,500 more jobs next year.
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Shea butter project employs 3,500 women
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Women empowerment imperative to keep pace with globalization:
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Employment to grow steadily:
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An exercise in undercounting the poor
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Controversial scheme could create 500 jobs
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Milk shed Development programme
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Government pledges to work with women's organisations
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Global projects firm launches clean development fund
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Global financial crisis would push girls into child labour
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Access Bank to begin operations in Ghana
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People forked out more money last month
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Record number of women employed
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1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty
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Borrowers of 78 districts would be eligible
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Minimum wage rate would attract women to work in hotels and restaurants
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Women save less than men
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Five jobs created at new betting shop