How can you help women build their businesses?
Join the New Business Mentoring Program
The New Business Mentoring Program (NBMP) is a key component of our Migrant Women’s Micro Business Program and needs the support of experienced and enthusiastic small business owners and professionals.
If you are looking for rewarding ways to give back to the community and gain some new skills as a mentor, we invite you join the program as a New Business Mentor.
Your experience, skills, knowledge and practical know-how can help a motivated migrant woman develop her business ideas and create networks in the larger community.
The Program is designed to assist unemployed and underemployed women in the Lakemba area who have migrant or refugee and non-English speaking backgrounds. Participants will be from countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Tonga, and Sudan. Their micro business interests include: online commerce and import/export of goods such as clothes, jewelry, accessories, healthcare and beauty products; tutoring, catering and food production, sewing/dressmaking, and floristry services; and designing and producing new product lines (e.g. jewelry, stationery and greeting cards).
The NBMP will provide one-on-one mentoring and peer support to migrant and refugee women taking our Certificate III Micro Business skills training. Mentors will provide mentees with guidance, direction, coaching and encouragement to help them move through the training course and develop their business ideas. The one-on-one mentoring relationship will develop through face-to-face meetings, email exchanges, and phone calls.
Mentors will be required to:
• participate in Program orientation session,
• participate in mentoring sessions with their designated mentee at least every four weeks (for a total of 10 hours over 10 months). Mentoring sessions will be guided by coursework, individual interests, and business pathway planning,
• complete a record sheet after each mentoring session and participate in periodic debriefs with the Program Coordinator for program monitoring and evaluation purposes.
To apply to be a mentor a click here.
If you are interested and would like to learn more before applying, please contact the Program Coordinator, Tonya Cook-Pedersen on 0412247656 or at tonya.cook-pedersen@scc.nsw.edu.au
