AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business (Issue 3) | Page 16

Ms. Kawsar Rahimi, Public and International Rela-
tions Officer at AWCCI officially started program
with welcome notes. Subsequently she reviewed the
agenda and introduced the campaign of More Af-
ghan Women in Business for participants. Mr. Ali
Yaqin Danesh, Acedemic Vice-Chancellor of Karwan
University also had speech regarding this session. He
firstly appreciated AWCCI for holding this program
at Karwan University and hoped for further coopera-
tion between two entities. He highlighted that “no so-
ciety will have a considerable progress until men with
women work together.”
Besides, AWCCI arranged a panel discussion of three
successful businesswomen on their business journey.
Panelists were Ms. Khwaga Kakar, President of Apa-
ma Consultancy and member of AWCCI board, Ms.
Habiba Payendanik, President of Qizil Handicrafts
Company, Vice President of Plariz IT Company and
a member of AWCCI board of directors, and Ms.
Hasina Zaeefi, President of Akaam Zaeefi group of
companies. Penal discussion mainly focused on the
business experiences of the panelists and their advices
for students who had a business idea. Students not
only had the chance of question and answer but also
they shared their ideas. At the end students had the
In the second part of the program Ms. Zahra Tar- opportunity of networking and visiting the exhibition.
shi, President of Khane Khurshid Kindergarten and a Besides seminar, AWCCI also arranged a full day ex-
member of AWCCI board of directors delivered the hibition of women products in this university from
presentation of Entrepreneurship and business to the
attendees in Hall. This seminar contained discussions
such as impacts of entrepreneurship on life, differ-
ences between an Entrepreneur and an Employee,
characteristics of an entrepreneur, characteristics of a
successful entrepreneur, and writing business plan. It
was an interactive session which students at first had
an exercise like pretest of entrepreneurship and a post
test of entrepreneurship.
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Clothing, Handicrafts, Jewelry, Food and saffron sec-
tors.
AWCCI is grateful to Karwan University for their
cooperation and technical support and to Afghani-
stan International Bank trailblazer sponsor of
AWCCI in 2019.