Project Description
Yozmot Atid enables underprivileged women of all sectors of the Israeli society to reach economic independence through micro-entrepreneurship and business mentoring.
Yozmot Atid offers an effective platform, under which each program participant receives 150 hours of high-quality professional guidance including:
- Personal & group training: financial advice, taxation, marketing and customers growth and suppliers’ management
- A Micro loan
- 10,000 NIS worth of branding, website and other consulting services
- 1 year of mentoring conducted by professional volunteers
The platform consists on the following two beliefs:
- Micro-entrepreneurship can greatly assist individuals struggling with economic hardship; it is beneficial for struggling individuals and for the economy and society as a whole. However, in the absence of access to resources, it is extremely difficult for disadvantaged populations to operate in this sector
- Women are a particularly vulnerable sector, both in light of the gender wage gap and the fact that many women are defined as housewives and are therefore deducted from the labour force calculation
