Africa-Press – Senegal. Fifty entrepreneurs from the departments of Louga, Linguère and Kébémer benefited from a training session in financial education, management of a production or processing unit and in marketing of products and services, we learned on Friday from Abdoulaye Diop, trainer at the Support Center for the Promotion of Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship (CAPER).
“There are fifty entrepreneurs, the majority of whom are young people and women, who participated in these training sessions spread over the three departments, namely Louga, Linguère and Kébémer,” he told reporters at the end of the closing ceremony of the training session.
He pointed out that “participants from the department of Louga received their certificates proving their participation in this training session focused on budget management, debt management and savings”. They “will also benefit from technical support for a period of four months,” he announced.
“We chose these three themes because they are the three themes that are most important for companies that often do not have the tools that allow them to be able to manage these financial aspects,” he explained.
This program carried out by the firm CAPER SAS, which supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in partnership with the Suqali project, aims “to support SMEs and equip them, so that they have tools allowing them to carry out their activities,” he said.
« Après Louga, la prochaine étape, c’est la région de Matam où il y a cinquante-neuf entreprises qui vont bénéficier de ces sessions de formation », a annoncé M. Diop.
Rose Marie Faye, bénéficiaire et patronne du GIE « Ndame Takku Liggey », qui s’active dans la transformation de produits céréaliers, a salué cette « excellente initiative », qui, selon elle, leur »a permis d’acquérir beaucoup de connaissances dans la gestion de l’épargne, la dette et les modalités pour obtenir un prêt auprès des banques »
Elle a invité les autorités et les ONG à »soutenir davantage ces genres d’initiatives », et à les « accompagner davantage », en leur « facilitant également l’accès aux financements (…) ».
The director of the company Louga Energie, Green Economy and Services, for his part, declared that “the training was very relevant because it meets a need of entrepreneurs, who are at the level of SMEs, who really need to be equipped to carry out their activities”.
“We have the impression that the authorities most often tend to focus on the financial aspect, while there are prerequisites that entrepreneurs need, in particular training and formalization to carry out their activities properly,” said he noted.
“That’s why I believe we were trained on an extremely important module, ranging from budgeting to the different elements of the budget and how to save,” he said.
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