NGO inviting participants for business skills training

A NON-government organisation in Lae is inviting participants of its business skills training to attend free counseling on how to improve their operation.
Anis Foundation Incorporated is encouraging small business entrepreneurs, who are participants of its business skills training, to attend free counseling on how they can continue with their small businesses in their communities.
The foundation’s sales and marketing representative, Rodney Jofangke, said coaching and mentoring was the second phase to the business development skills training.
The foundation issued the invitation after 93 small business owners attended a training at West Taraka in Lae on Sunday.
The participants were trained on basic book-keeping, skills and attitude of entrepreneurs, project costs, costing of goods and services, inventory register, cash flow forecast, and marketing.
The training was funded by the Bank of PNG through the Centre for Excellence in Financial Inclusion.
Jofangke said the foundation was offered a contract by the Central Bank to facilitate training in the province over six months.
He said the training connected SME owners to micro finance institutions. “This was the fourth training with 377 people trained so far,” Jofangke said.
“The first training was attended by 95 SME owners, then at the Morobe special education resource centre in Eriku with another 95, and 94 at Buimo Road.”
Jofangke said the Central Bank released funding based on reports of training the foundation conducted to continue more training.