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THE Australian government is “empowering women into the future,” as its partnership with the Macquarie Group Foundation, through the Investing in Women RISE Fund, currently boosts 13 women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while sustaining more than 1,000 jobs during the pandemic. Economic disruptions caused by the health crisis have…
(Photo courtesy of DICT) MANILA - Quite literally, investing in women-led businesses can lead to an empowered future. From a realization that education is not accessible to many, Carmina Bayombong and her partner Ronald Replan now sustain hundreds of students through InvestEd, a social enterprise that provides loans to help unbanked youths finance their schooling. Bayombong, the CEO and co-founder of InvestEd, said her company not only helps provide students with the necessary funding to continue their studies but also counseling and coaching to ensure they succeed from school to workforce. "My parents broke out of poverty by getting a college degree and ever since I was growing up, they taught me that education is a very powerful tool for success but not everyone has access to it and my parents were right because when I was studying engineering in college, I saw my own friends become part of this statistics," she said. "We've realized, I and my co-founder, that ther
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Funding for women entrepreneurs in the Philippines is only 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) as against Thailand’s 37 percent, according to an investment company specializing in the small and medium enterprises InBest Ventures. At the virtual Macquarie Investing in Women RISE Fund event, Da