Partnership helps six local entrepreneurs start business

By PETER ESILA
THE Emstret Holdings Ltd partnership with the Green Global Growth (GGGI) Institute to support entrepreneurs develop sustainable business ideas has been successful.
Six winners from 20 entrepreneurs that graduated from the GGGI Pacific Green Entrepreneurs Network (PGEN) yesterday in Port Moresby received US$5,000 (about K17,152) in capital to start their business towards green growth.
The competition was the Pacific Green Entrepreneurs Incubator Business Plan Competition 2021.
Founder and chief executive officer of Emstret Holdings Ltd Vani Nades said her company had over the past five months been a part of the GGGI startup challenge, assisting entrepreneurs explore their ideas and potential in the green space.
“As entrepreneurs, it is all about passion, patience and persistence, these are the ingredients. It is not easy to start, and it is always a challenge for entrepreneurs in PNG when we start, and this means that we can do it ourselves,” she said.
“It is all about finding the right people and partnership, that can work together to enable you and empower you.”
Nades said the partnership with the GGGI had been very successful.
GGGI PNG country representative Saki Tuisolia said the programme was a good example of a responsible business model and could be promoted to build SMEs that was the engine of innovation and would be at the heart of a green transition for PNG.
“We support countries, transforming economies towards green growth, to grow to a strong and resilient, sustainable and socially inclusive society,” he said.
The six entrepreneurs were Martha J Raka from Sere J Pacific, Ester Sione from Tehine Trend, Anne-Shirley Korave from Queen Pads Products Ltd, Max Pumina from Agricop Enterprise Ltd and Ezekiel Dujambi from Litfuel and Stanley Mark and Rebecca Kyakas from Wabag Waste Management.