A powerful support model specifically designed for women entrepreneurs will be offered

Akbank has added a new initiative to its pioneering efforts to support women entrepreneurs. With the BinYaprak Women Entrepreneur Mentorship Program, announced on November 19, Women's Entrepreneurship Day, Akbank and TurkishWIN will stand by women entrepreneurs to help them increase their success and grow their businesses through an individual mentorship system and development-focused sharing meetings. Applications for the program, which will begin in 2024, open today and will continue until December 11, 2023. 

POWERFUL MENTORSHIP AND SUPPORT

The 6-month mentorship program will empower women entrepreneurs with a next-generation model. In the program, which will include 100 women entrepreneurs, 100 experts in their fields will share their experiences with the entrepreneurs. This will ensure that each entrepreneur receives guidance tailored to their business, sector, and individual needs.      All women entrepreneurs with a turnover of 1 million TL can apply to the program via https://binyaprak.com/kadin-girisimci-mentorluk-programi. 

Through this program, entrepreneurs will also have the opportunity to join a powerful network that will include mentors and thought leaders from the business world. Thus, they will be able to benefit from this network and the possibilities of new collaborations to grow and transform their businesses. 

As a founding signatory of the Principles for Financial Health and Inclusion developed in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Akbank supports women's work in the business and entrepreneurship world through its national and international commitments. Akbank Executive Vice President of SME Banking Bülent Oğuz said, “Within the scope of the Mentorship Program we conduct with TurkishWIN, we aim to make the power and presence of women in the entrepreneurship ecosystem visible and to enable women entrepreneurs to increase their roles in Turkey's economic growth. Our work for our women-owned SMEs will continue without slowing down, and on this occasion, I celebrate November 19, World Women's Entrepreneurship Day.”         

TurkishWIN founder Melek Pulatkonak said, “The power and courage within our women entrepreneurs have always inspired us and continue to do so. In addition to overcoming obstacles in the business world, they are working double shifts by managing the burdens of gender inequality. As TurkishWIN, we have been working since 2010 to increase women's employment and awareness of gender inequality. Our gender codes may not change from today to tomorrow, and we have a long road ahead. We have been supporting entrepreneurial women who provide employment and are role models in their cities with our various mentorship programs since 2015. Today, in the BinYaprak Women Entrepreneur Mentorship Program, we are standing by 100 women entrepreneurs with our mentors who say it is beautiful to share experiences, our stakeholders, and our founding supporter Akbank. In this second century of the Republic, we are excited to be a part of the stories written by 100 women entrepreneurs this year and every year, and to walk the same path.”  said.

News Source: 12punto