Lab Dakar: promotion of & #8217; female entrepreneurs in Senegal

The cooperation project promoted by IPSIA Sardinia goes live.

Development cooperation and cultural exchange. With the visit of a delegation from senegalese land Sardinian goes live on project Lab Dakar: promotion of & #8217; female entrepreneurs in Senegal funded by the Region Sardinia (funds regional law 19/1996) and carried on by IPSIA Sardinia, lead partner, together with Comune di Ussaramanna, National PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE, all’Association Sunugal Senegal and the senegalese women's cooperative GIS GIS.

The initiative was born with the main goal to provide practical help to improve the status of women in Senegal, reduce the gender gap and increase the level of protection of human rights through the promotion of female entrepreneurship in textiles. But not only: “the cooperation -says the President of IPSIA Sardinia and project coordinator Blessed Iannelli – It will be essential to stimulate thecultural exchange between the island and the African country. Through its contribution to economic growth and creating more job opportunities on site, then, may be favoured the irregular migratory flows decrease to abroad, a tragic reality of contemporary Senegal”.

From 22 al 27 March, Therefore, a delegation of the President Iannelli, the President of Acli Provinciali di Cagliari Mauro Charter, from video production expert Dhileepan S, will start to Guediawaye, cities in the region of Dakar where is located the intervention, to follow the development of the activities foreseen by the plan. The delegates will join the two authors of the project, young designers in Milan Julius Vismara is Sara Meucci, already in Africa to follow the start of production for Equomercato is, along with members of the senegalese Cooperative GIS GIS, the design and development of new products.

"We are very pleased that our proposal has been selected by Region – continues Iannelli –, in particular because it is very dear to our Island: theYouth and female entrepreneurship, on one side, and theImmigration from ’ more. This project represents a real opportunity to strengthen the bonds between Sardinia and Senegal both from an institutional point of view that commercial ". The intervention, explain the organizers, is in line with international cooperation activities carried out by the Regional Council in December 2017 joined the project Sardinia – Senegal for sustainable development with the aim of involving Sardinian entrepreneurs and take them to start economic activities in the African country through collaboration with associations and business networks.

A virtuous circle, fueled by the commitment of associations Islander, which aims to have repercussions not only in the cheap is institutional, but also in the context cultural is social Sardo: through the involvement of immigrant communities and schools will work on the culture of acceptance, the welcome and integration. Key issues in a historical period like the present one in which too often develop mechanisms of hatred, racism and intolerance towards migrants.

Listen l & #8217; Blessed Iannelli interview: