United States Supports Free of charge On the web Mentoring Platform for Entrepreneurs

Release No. 20220113

United States Supports No cost On-line Mentoring System for Business people  

January 13, 2022 

Colombo, Sri Lanka – The U. S. government’s Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) introduced a cost-free on the internet mentoring system currently to hook up rising business owners with skilled organization industry experts.  The system, readily available to the community at www.sure.youlead.lk, connects aspiring business people throughout Sri Lanka with additional than 100 professional enterprise leaders and matter make a difference specialists to support them navigate unparalleled worries and assist the long-expression success of their organizations.

“Mentoring is incredibly usually the lacking url in the results of numerous startups, particularly for those people owned by females or positioned outdoors the urban facilities with limited accessibility to networking prospects and support facilities,” mentioned Reed Aeschliman, USAID Mission Director for Sri Lanka and Maldives.  “USAID’s YouLead project is strengthening entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka by providing organization homeowners an on the internet system to go over their designs and receive aim guidance from industry experts, totally free of demand.”

Via a partnership involving USAID’s YouLead undertaking and the Sasnaka Sansada Basis, this system matches business people with mentors who volunteer their time and experience to support enterprises thrive.  To assure extensive-expression sustainability, a focused team is in position to onboard mentors and mentees, moderate the mentor-mentee engagement, and recruit reputed mentors onto the network.  

Hasitha Wijesundara, President of Sasnaka Sansada Foundation, mentioned that “There is an abundance of entrepreneurial spirit in Sri Lanka, but lots of business people lack the expertise to see their thoughts by means of and get rid of concentrate when working with the complexities of managing a business enterprise.  By this mentoring platform, we will be in a position to better match eager business people with expert mentors and boost the achievement charge of startups in Sri Lanka via a structured approach.”

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