{"id":16457,"date":"2021-07-27T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T01:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=16457"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T04:45:54","slug":"online-community-for-female-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2021\/07\/27\/online-community-for-female-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Online community for female entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/college-humanities-arts-social-sciences\/gender-consortium\">The Gender Consortium<\/a> at Flinders University will help create an online community for female entrepreneurs across Indonesia and link them to Australian female entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>The Gender Consortium, which is part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is working in partnership with the Hen House Co-op Ltd and the Indonesian Ministry of Women&#8217;s Empowerment and Child Protection.<\/p>\n<p>New funding worth $95,000 will support the creation of a safe online space for female Indonesian entrepreneurs to share ideas, connect with each other, build confidence, learn and test their business objectives in a supportive environment.<\/p>\n<p>Flinders alumna Moira Were AM (BSocAdmin \u201982), founder of Chooks SA and the Hen House Co-op Ltd, says support for female entrepreneurs is urgently needed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 is having a devastating impact and women are bearing the brunt of the effects with extra complications through juggling business, family and community responsibilities,\u201d says Ms Were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing an online platform to connect, communicate, curate and co-create information, new knowledge and confidence, this initiative can positively leverage these circumstances to build community, manage expectations around connectivity, capacity and capability building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Indonesia Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<\/p>\n<p>For updates about the progress of this initiative follow:<br \/>\nTwitter Handles: @HenHouseCoop and @GCFlinders<br \/>\nFacebook Page: @GCFlinders<br \/>\nInstagram: @HenHouseCoop<br \/>\nHashtags: #AusIndonesia Institute #HenHouseCoop #genderlens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative led by The Gender Consortium at Flinders University will help create an online community for female entrepreneurs across Indonesia and link them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":16458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8152],"tags":[30543,30542],"class_list":["post-16457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences","tag-hen-house-co-op","tag-the-gender-consortium"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}