FJWU Organized Three Days Entrepreneurship Fair
Rawalpindi Continuing the previous year’s tradition of organization of successful Women Entrepreneurship Fair, this year, once again, Office of Research Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) at Fatima Jinnah Women University arranged the entrepreneurship fair from April 11 to 13, 2018.
It was conducted to bring together aspiring and current women business owners and entrepreneurs from diverse ages, educational levels, and industries for networking and bench-marking. At the same time, it assisted to instill an entrepreneurial spirit and underscore the worth of this spirit in students, community organizations and businesses.
More than 50 stalls have been displayed by exhibitors including, FJWU current students, alumni and established business women from twin cities. A large number of visitors including students, women and children attended this event. Display of products and services included; personality assessment, pottery, paintings, sports, photography, color carnival, clothing, bedding jewelry, handicrafts and food items were displayed as well.
The basic cause of this session was to motivate the students and young business women of twin cities for establishment of their business and how they can become successful entrepreneurs.
At the occasion, Vice Chancellor FJWU, Prof Dr. Samina Amin Qadir said that, in the coming years, students of FJWU will become job providers instead of job seekers. She emphasized that entrepreneurs can play a vital role in the development by taking moderate amount of risk, being ethical and socially responsible. She also said that entrepreneurship has its importance in corporate sector as well as social sector. No doubt, entrepreneurship is profit generating but yet responsible to give back to the society, and develop civic sense and character building characteristics.