Kirkby committed to help women entrepreneurs

Source from (The Sun Daily): http://www.thesundaily.my/news/514263

Published: October 14, 2012

CYBERJAYA (Oct 13, 2012): Kirkby International College (KIC) is committed to helping women in 'start-up' and 'growing companies' to have a good command of English to grow their business, said its president, Bismillah Khatoon Abdul Kader.

As such, she said, Kirkby collaborated with the Women Entrepreneurs Network Association (Wena) to provide office space, training facilities and conduct Business English courses for Wena members, under Kirkby's new learning and development programmes to raise proficiency in English.
"Wena members are among the most talented and entrepreneurial group of women contributing to Malaysia's SMEs (small and medium enterprises). We need to help them to widen their business opportunities to reach wider markets.

"They need practical support like space, soft loans and technical advice. They also need to be able to talk and write about their products and services in a medium that can be understood internationally," she said in a statement here today.
Today, Kirkby and Wena marked their strategic collaboration with the exchange of a memorandum of understanding (MoU). Kirkby was represented by Bismillah and Wena, by its president, Nuraizah S. Baharin.

Under the Mou, Bismillah said KIC would develop the necessary trade and exchange of technical knowledge for Wena members.
She said Kirkby's learning and development programmes would prepare the women entrepreneurs for the global market by offering workshops to raise their proficiency in written and spoken English.

"Through this collaboration, Kirkby will be conducting English courses to the women entrepreneurs under the Wena umbrella, with the objective that these amazing women can expand and increase their business opportunities," she said. – Bernama