Old Mutual targets small businesses for empowerment

Tujoromajo Kasuto The Old Mutual Sustainable, Economic, and Empowerment Drive (OM SEED) initiative, launched in collaboration with Launch Namibia, the Financial Literacy Initiative (FLI), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Lab, aims to empower 180 entrepreneurs with N$85 000. Old Mutual Foundation manager of communications Mufaro Nesongano states OM SEED is an initiative that they have endorsed for the next three years, beginning this year. Every year, they will target the grassroots market in three randomly selected towns across the 14 regions. ‘’This year we have specifically selected Keetmanshoop, Oshakati and Windhoek, as these towns are strategically located…