ComBank takes empowering knowledge to entrepreneurs of Marawila & Wennappuwa

Nearly 100 micro and small business owners in the Marawila and Wennappuwa areas recently benefitted from a sustainable entrepreneurship development programme conducted for them by the Commercial Bank of Ceylon in collaboration with several other key institutions.

Organised under Commercial Bank’s ‘Dirishakthi Sustainable Entrepreneurship Development initiatives, the seminar cum workshop provided the knowledge required to improve their technical and financial literacy and other entrepreneurship skills as well as information on relevant topics including business registration procedures and the banking products and services available to them to grow their businesses.

Resource persons for the programme represented the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, key departments of the Divisional Secretariat of Wennappuwa and Commercial Bank’s own Development Credit Department and Agriculture and Micro Finance Unit (AMFU), as well senior officers of the Bank.

The Bank said the principal objectives of the programme were to enhance financial and entrepreneurship skills, increase access to finance, empower decision making and to contribute to community development.