Empowering female students: Facebook, Tevta Punjab start free online courses

LAHORE: Facebook and Tevta Punjab empower female students discover ways to build digital marketing skills and starts a business with free #SheMeansBusiness online courses. In this age of digitalization, Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) Punjab, besides initiating several other measures for bringing women in the mainstream, is working in collaboration with Facebook for starting a programme aimed at providing digital skills.

Facebook in collaboration with Tevta is hosting a series of online training sessions under #SheMeansBusiness programme with women across Punjab part of Tevta vocational institutes from the month of July 2020 till December 2020. The trainings, which will be conducted online, are aimed to arm them with the knowledge, connections, skills, and technology required to build and grow their business online.

Speaking about the partnership, Chairperson Tevta Ali Salman Siddique said "we were in communication with Facebook regarding its worldwide programme #SheMeansBusiness, under which women are provided with digital skills to effectively plan their journey to become a successful entrepreneur using Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Upon our request Facebook evaluated Tevta's suitability for its said programme. We are extremely grateful for entering this collaboration with Facebook under #SheMeansBusiness programme as we work to support the next generation of digitally skilled Pakistani citizens."

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