Walmart online site benefits small businesses

A NEW online destination launched by Walmart allows consumers in the United States to shop for products made by women-owned businesses. The project, Empowering Women Together, is an initiative advancing the company’s commitment to support women in Africa, Asia and the Americas.

With each purchase, consumers help the women behind these products to create new jobs and improve their lives and the lives of their families and communities. More than 200 items will comprise the initial online merchandise. They will come from 19 business including Gahaya Links, a Rwandan enterprise, the Women’s Bean Project, a non-profit organisation,  and from other enterprises from Peru, Kenya, Rwanda, the U.S, Haiti, Cambodia, Nepal and Canada. (In photo: Walmart CEO Mike Duke presenting new initiative)