Kesha Pariyar (Kesh Kumari Damini), chairperson of National Micro Entrepreneurs Federation (NMEFEN), has won Business for Peace Award (BPA).
Pariyar is one of the six award recipients selected as one of the 2014 Business for Peace Honourees by the committee of Nobel Laureates.
The award is given by Business for Peace Foundation, based in Oslo, Norway. She will be awarded amid a special function on May 15 in the City Hall, Oslo, the same venue where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented every year.
Kesha is one of the 70,000 beneficiaries of Micro Enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP)-a joint initiative of Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Industry (GoN-MoI) and UNDP. She received entrepreneurship development training and access to credit through MEDEP which she used to to establish Manisha Tailoring and Training Centre in 2003. Now her enterprise provides full time employment to six people including her husband and a daughter.
“Damini came from the most disadvantaged of Dalit communities in Nepal, her leadership and success have inspired many to become entrepreneurs explore self-employment opportunities and overcome discrimination,” mentioned the website of the BPA Foundation. She was also actively involved in organising micro entrepreneurs into groups and associations, and encouraging them to advocate for their causes.
She was elected as chairperson of District Micro Entrepreneurs’ Groups Association, Parbat in 2005. With MEDEP support, when micro entrepreneurs were forming a nationally federated body, Kesha was unanimously elected to lead NMEFEN in 2006.
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Pariyar is one of the six award recipients selected as one of the 2014 Business for Peace Honourees by the committee of Nobel Laureates.
The award is given by Business for Peace Foundation, based in Oslo, Norway. She will be awarded amid a special function on May 15 in the City Hall, Oslo, the same venue where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented every year.
Kesha is one of the 70,000 beneficiaries of Micro Enterprise Development Programme (MEDEP)-a joint initiative of Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Industry (GoN-MoI) and UNDP. She received entrepreneurship development training and access to credit through MEDEP which she used to to establish Manisha Tailoring and Training Centre in 2003. Now her enterprise provides full time employment to six people including her husband and a daughter.
“Damini came from the most disadvantaged of Dalit communities in Nepal, her leadership and success have inspired many to become entrepreneurs explore self-employment opportunities and overcome discrimination,” mentioned the website of the BPA Foundation. She was also actively involved in organising micro entrepreneurs into groups and associations, and encouraging them to advocate for their causes.
She was elected as chairperson of District Micro Entrepreneurs’ Groups Association, Parbat in 2005. With MEDEP support, when micro entrepreneurs were forming a nationally federated body, Kesha was unanimously elected to lead NMEFEN in 2006.
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