Dili, November 5, 2024

The Minister of Commerce and Industry Nino Pereira participated in the launch of the “Hakbi’it Feto Timor-Leste” store, a learning platform with manuals in the Rede Feto building, Caicoli, Díli.

The aim of establishing the Hakbi'it Feto Timor-Leste store is to provide a place to sell and connect the market to promote local food products that have been processed, horticulture (agriculture), and artifacts in Dili, as well as promote and sell products from local women farmers empower and strengthen women in social and economic life, through training to support, develop and empower women's participation in society and financial activities, especially women's involvement in the value chain and commodity system.

Minister Nino Pereira said the women's struggle has entered a new dimension to reach the dimension of people's liberation.

“The women's struggle enters a new dimension, in the dimension of liberation of the people, collectively we want to reach this space, it becomes the responsibility of all of us, because we project the future, so there are many services, one, we all have to do, certainly with the Timor-Leste's connection to the world also has great implications, especially in the economy, today we say that women must have economic power, women must have become champions in the business results they have shown, not become great entrepreneurs but we see small people who they are transporting heavy goods from their homes to distant places, to sell just one product, an effort that our mothers make to survive”. Said Minister of MCI

The Timor-Leste Women's Empowerment Store will become a local product center in Dili that will promote and sell products produced by beneficiaries of civil society organizations and women's groups from members of the Timor-Leste Women's Network.

Attended the launch ceremony were, the Secretary of State for Equality, Representative, Australian Embassy, ​​ Priest, President of the Women's Network and its members, representatives of institutions, representatives of ADRA, and the guests.

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