200 girls artisans and entrepreneurs have graduated from HERTISAN Cohort 2.0, an enterprise growth programme carried out by Emerging Communities to strengthen monetary literacy and enterprise administration abilities.
The commencement ceremony was held on Friday, October 16, 2026. The programme additionally allotted ₦5 million throughout 23 enterprise awards, offering micro-grants to chosen contributors to assist funding of their companies.
Participants work in trades together with baking, floristry, hair styling, trend design, furnishings making, inside ornament and occasion ornament. The programme focuses on serving to them flip their technical abilities into sustainable companies by means of higher pricing, record-keeping, money circulation administration and planning.
According to Emerging Communities, HERTISAN addresses the hole between understanding a commerce and having the monetary information wanted to run a viable enterprise. Its strategy encourages contributors to perceive manufacturing prices, assess profitability and make knowledgeable selections about reinvestment and progress.
Speaking on the ceremony, Dr Seyi Tytler, Executive Director of Emerging Communities, mentioned the programme’s aims prolonged past the variety of girls educated.
“It is to help more women build businesses that can grow, withstand financial shocks and create lasting economic value.”
The enterprise awards recognised excellent contributors and have been designed to join the enterprise coaching with sensible monetary assist. Recipients are anticipated to use the micro-grants to put money into their trades.
Fidelity Bank supported Cohort 2.0 as headline sponsor by means of its HerFidelity programme. Government companions included the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund and the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency.
Emerging Communities mentioned the partnerships introduced collectively financial-sector assist and public-sector engagement to increase alternatives for ladies entrepreneurs. It recognized monetary establishments, growth organisations, company foundations and authorities companies as potential companions for additional assist.
The organisation mentioned the second cohort constructed on the programme’s first version, with a unbroken concentrate on serving to girls artisans handle their companies extra successfully and strengthen their livelihoods.
Emerging Communities works throughout know-how, enterprise, training and social growth, creating programmes aimed toward addressing boundaries confronted by underserved communities.
