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Why YouWIN 2 Focuses on Women Enterprises – Jonathan

By BusinessNews Staff on September 4, 2012

President Jonathan disclosed why YouWIN 2 was all about women enterprises. He said women have a better track-record of using grants to create opportunities than men.

The President cited the low turnout of women winners of the grant in phase 1 of the YouWIN scheme. Women comprised only 17% of the beneficiaries of that program.

His words: “The first reason why we
are focusing on women solely this time is that globally, the world talks about women and children. It is a topical point globally and Nigeria must be among the comity of nations.

“So, we must come up with programmes that will help women and protect and save lives of children, that is at the UN level. So, we must do things that other nations will copy from us, we should not only be copying from others.”

“In another ways too, women, in terms of using small money to create opportunities, have done it better than men,” he added.

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