With the North American Leaders’ Summit getting underway this week in Mexico Metropolis, the U.S. Division of State’s Bureau of Academic and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and Amazon introduced in the present day a brand new public-private partnership in assist of the Academy for Girls Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Latin America and American Areas in Mexico. This new public-private partnership, launching through the U.S.-Mexico’s bicentennial of bilateral relations, will assist the Division and Amazon’s shared priorities towards selling gender fairness, financial competitiveness, training, and improvement.
Now working in additional than 100 international locations, the Division established AWE in 2019 to offer ladies entrepreneurs the data, networks, and entry they should launch or scale profitable companies. Amazon will assist present program assist for this 12 months’s AWE members in southern Mexico, together with pitch competitors seed funds and entry to Amazon studying merchandise for greater than 100 ladies entrepreneurs. Amazon’s contribution will even assist AWE members in Brazil. As well as, the Division and Amazon will broaden the attain and influence of American Areas in Mexico. American Areas – an important U.S. diplomatic device – are open-access studying and gathering locations around the globe that promote interplay between native communities and the US. There are greater than 570 American Areas in 130 international locations worldwide.
This public-private partnership aligns with the US’ Nationwide Technique on Gender Fairness and Equality and the U.S. Technique on International Girls’s Financial Safety by selling ladies’s management and increasing training and financial improvement alternatives for underserved communities in southern Mexico and Brazil.
Amazon’s partnership with the Division displays its long-standing dedication to strengthen the sustainability of native communities and actively promote ladies’s management within the office, market, and neighborhood.
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