Islamabad Women Gala kicks off at F-9 Park

ISLAMABAD:

The colourful Islamabad Women Gala organised by Let’s Grow Together (LGT) – a community of entrepreneurs – kicked off on Saturday at F-9 Park featuring several displays of handmade products by women artisans. The two-day event is aimed at promoting home-based women workers and artisans.

Around 150 stalls of homemade products by women entrepreneurs including a variety of lifestyle exhibits like fashion products, interior décor products, furniture, resin art, paintings, garments and jewellery etc were set up on the premises of the park while some stalls were also given to children to inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship among the young minds and engage them in healthy activities.

A large number of people including women and families visited the exhibition and also enjoyed local foods which were also part of the activities offering a variety of foods for the families and visitors in a cultural environment. Some stalls of imported products were also set up for income generation of women entrepreneurs, said Ambreen Haider, Leader of Lets Grow Together Community.

The Islamabad Women Gala was a fun-filled event encouraging women entrepreneurs across the country for the welfare of the local community of women entrepreneurs in Islamabad.

Let’s Grow Together Community is a dedicated platform for handmade, homemade, art and craft entrepreneurs, especially women working with the mission to create economic opportunities.

It facilitates the beneficiaries through various platforms exclusively aimed to create business opportunities for small entrepreneurs at various forums where artisans can display their products, share their business stories, outline their terms, interact and network with their counterparts, she said, adding that “such events help empower women, educate children, improve health and enable communities to thrive and succeed.”

Let’s Grow Together is a community working for the support and strength of women to empower them through direct investment in the total socio-economic development of marginalised communities living in densely populated urban slums.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13^th, 2022.