Having sponsored the Women In Business Expo last year, Digicel is again the major sponsor for the Women in Business Expo this year.
Digicel presented a cheque of K50, 000 cash well as 50, 000 in kind and support to Founder of Women in Business Janet Sape at the new Women in Business warehouse located at the Steamships compound, Waigani.
Digicel Retail Director Lorna McPherson who presented the cheque says Digicel is excited to be part of this years expo and part of the reason why they wanted to be part of the expo is because of the difference made from last years expo for women in PNG.
“What Janet and her team does to establish women is a really great effort and to get women to come out and show off to the rest of the PNG what they can do to contribute to the investment of their family and children,” she says.
McPherson adds that once we know that we are empowering women, they invest in education and health and this will really improve PNG and this K100, 000 in cash and kind support will make a big difference.
Founder for Women in Business Janet Sape thanked Digicel for have the K100, 000 sponsorship in the Women in Business Expo adding that now that they have a more central venue, everyone to come on down to the old Hardware Haus to check out what some of the local women will be putting up for sale.
“We have about 100 plus participants already registered for the stalls that are already built and some groups have already flown in from the other provinces of which WIB have allocated them a stall for free as they had paid for their own way in specifically for the WIB Expo,” she says.
The opening of the WIB Expo will be on Thursday September 15 and will go on for 10 days until September 25.
Entry will free and the general public is welcome to come and have a look at some of the items and goodies as well as foods that will be produced by some of the talented women of PNG.