Male champions of change step forward to help women led businesses.

Lahore -- All Pakistan Women Movement (APWM) hosted Her Mentor Galore Dream - Learn - Scale on Saturday, from 3pm to 6pm at COLABS Gulberg, Lahore.

APWM is an awareness, advocacy and capacity building initiative to increase financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women. We have curated multiple programmes to help women develop their skills and find avenues to start and scale their ventures. APWM aims to train, support and educate women entrepreneurs. Her Mentor Galore is aimed to address the business challenges of women and help them find solutions to those challenges. Her Mentor Galore started with an introduction of the programme and how it is aimed to support the women entrepreneurs through different engagement workshops over 3 months. Javaria Khan, founder APWM talked about the importance of financial independence of women and how it is important for the society.

The welcome was followed by a brief talk by Humayun Mazhar, President TiE Lahore Chapter. He talked about the mandate of TiE Lahore to support women led businesses and help them grow through mentoring and networking opportunities. The talk was followed by a keynote speech of Andleeb Abbas, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on the importance of mentoring for women led businesses.

In the next part of the programme, the 30 shortlisted women led startups introduced themselves and their startups. They were matched with 15 industry leaders to have one-on-one mentoring on their business ideas to take guidance to grow their ventures. The male champions of change and women leaders from the industry stepped forward to help women led businesses. The mentors included Humayun...