Leila Aftsiauri lives in Tetritskaro municipality. As part of a new initiative of the KRDF and UN Women, Leila has started a dried fruit business and plans to produce and sell natural dried apples, berries and plums.
Leila is actively involved in this activity and tries to calculate the possible risks as accurately as possible. She hasn’t started the sale yet, though she already has potential customers.
The project “Women’s Economic Empowerment through Social Mobilization and Capacity Building” is part of the UN Women’s regional project “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the South Caucasus”, which is funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The project “Women’s Economic Empowerment project through Social Mobilization and Capacity Building” is implemented by Kakheti Regional Development Foundation (KRDF), Taso Foundation (TF), and CARE Caucasus (CARE).
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Women's Initiatives
Women's initiatives funded under the project "Women's Ecnomic Empowement through Social Mobilization and Capacity Building (WEE)"