Congo/ Entrepreneurship: the Burotop Iris Foundation promotes ten innovative projects by young women

As part of the Congo Basin Innovation Days, the Burotop Iris Foundation, headed by Diana Attye, presented in Brazzaville the innovative projects of ten young women selected after training to boost their creative initiatives.

The innovative projects, part of the "Women and Digital Entrepreneurship" program sponsored by the Burotop Iris Foundation, highlight young women in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Congo and beyond. The ten projects are centered on strategic sectors, including four in agri-food, two in communications and media, one in events, two in transport and one in technology and digital innovation.

At the end of the three-month training course organized at the Fablab incubator in Brazzaville, these women received certificates of encouragement offered by this program, which is designed to propel their businesses forward.encouragement offered by this program, which fosters innovative initiatives driven by passion, hard work and vision, in order to build a solid entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Congo.Women sometimes face a number of challenges, including difficult access to financing, tax-related obstacles and a lack of training adapted to the realities of the digital world.

This is why the Burotop Iris Foundation and the "Women and digital entrepreneurship" program aim to transform these challenges into growth opportunities through training, support and concrete results.To encourage these women, the Burotop Iris Foundation had donated laptops and released funds to enable them to be better trained by various mentors.

Entrepreneur Dominique Nguiegna is the owner of a digital magazine project dedicated to health and well-being.Her aim is to help make health understandable, accessible and useful to everyone, because we all have more or less the same realities.

"Depending on the project and its niche, there may be funding in the Congo, especially as there are people who testify or people who come back every time. So, I think that in Congo, women's enterprise is financed. The certificate is the fruit of several months' work. We were a group of ten girls selected on the basis of an interview.A number of experts trained us in the digital economy, digital transformation, high-tech, but also everything to do with business creation", explained Dominique Nguiegna.

On the other hand, Thomono Divine, a process engineering and food industry engineer, has a project specializing in the manufacture of cosmetics. She aims to add value to medicinal plants by producing antiseptic soaps and therapeutic perfumes.

The majority of cosmetics and body products on the market, she believes, contain chemical substances that are highly harmful to health and unsuitable for the environment. They are at the root of certain skin problems such as weakening of the skin barrier, itching, acne and other problems." I was able to get help from a local bank. In any case, I'm really thrilled to have been selected by this competition, because it will really offer a lot to my company. Just by going to present my project in Paris, it will enable me to make myself known, to win an international market. I'd like to thank the Burutop Iris Foundation," commented Thomono Divine.

Source: www.adiac-congo.com/