eve-olution foundation empowerment


	Some of our first supporters are listed below:
	Mrs. Gladys Asmah (Ghana) Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) Mr. Bertrand Collomb (France) Mr. Abdou Diouf (Senegal) Mrs. Candide Leguede (Togo) Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) Mr. Kwame Pianim (Ghana) Mrs. Adelina Trujillolanda (Mexico)

	Mrs. Gladys Asmah (Ghana) Minister of Women and Children's Affairs
	(I am writing on the instance of the Hon. Minister of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC- Ghana, Mrs. Gladys Asmah).Please accept the sincerest thanks of the Hon. Minister for your letter.) The Mission of her Ministry is to enhance its contribution to the development of Ghana by achieving equal status and rights for women. It also seeks to promote the survival, development, protection and increased participation of both women and children in the development process. This will be done (among others) through the formulation of both gender and child specific development policy framework, guidelines, advocacy strategies and plans for implementation by MDAs, District Assemblies, private sector agencies, NGOs and other development partners. Your organization's initiatives and objectives fall in line with that of MOWAC, and the Hon. Minister believes that our two organizations can come together and contribute towards the economic advancement of women. She appreciates and highly commends your organization's drive and efforts. She will therefore appreciate if you could furnish her office, areas of concern and collaboration from your perspective. She assures you of her commitment towards this initiative. Her office is therefore ready to present you with all information within its power to facilitate this strategy. Thank you and hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely yours, Catherine Adu-Boadi For: Hon. Minister, Mrs. Gladys Asmah


	Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) Chairperson of the International Panel on Democracy and Development (UNESCO) Former General Secretary of the United Nations
	We have a long way to go before equal right between men and women becomes a reality and women can fully exerce their abilities and talents. However, we are certain women’s full participation in power will ensure that the fundamental values of liberty, democracy, and peace progress throughout the world. At the same time, we know that their participation in development will assure that genuine ongoing social progress is realized. For this reason, I wish to send my congratulations and encouragement to all those who enthusiastically undertake the work of the EVE-olution Foundation.
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	Mr. Bertrand Collomb (France) President Lafarge
	Madam President, I knew about the activities of the EVE-olution Foundation from the World Summit on Sustainable Development that was held in Paris last November. As President of Lafarge, I was particularly sensitive to supporting your action that relies on the network of women entrepreneurs to raise the economic performance standards in emerging countries and to promote the United Nations Millenium Development Goals. Your approach shares certain aspects of one in our group. In effect, Lafarge is present in seventy- five countries in the world and contributes to improving the social and environmental standards using the same norms and action principles in all of our operations. I encourage and support the [action] of the EVE-olution Foundation. In the hope that you meet with all the success you deserve, please accept, Madame President, my expression of praise.


	Mr. Abdou Diouf (Senegal) Former Senegal President General Secretary of the International organisation "La Francophonie"
	The newly organized foundation EVE-olution, which you chair, shares the objectives that largely meet most of the priorities established by the International Organization "La Francophonie". As I had the opportunity to say at the April 18th launching of the Western African Investment Fund's operational activities, the private sector has to play a role in the financing of development. As such, your foundation's contribution toward the creation of economically viable activities in developing countries deserves to be congratulated. Today, in Chile, Bresil, Ghana, Laos, and tomorrow in numerous member countries of the Francophonie, I would like your representatives to commit themselves to supporting women who take initiatives to "boost" their families, their communities, their villages, and, step-by-step, their countries. Your commitment to facilitating the dissemination and transmission of knowledge and skills adheres to our goals, which are based on a modern and efficient vision of sustainable development: at the local level and driven by community leaders in the areas of education and training, many of whom are often women For this reason, I ask you to convey my gratitude and my warm congratulations to all the women of your network and to assure them of the complete support of the "Francophonie".
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	Mrs. Candide Leguede (Togo) Fonder of the women entrepreneurs association AFCET in Togo
	It is a great pleasure for me to have met you and over all to have the opportunity to follow our talk after the Marrakech summit. I great the EVE-olution Foundation for its initiative of supporting businesswomen in developing countries. Your Foundation relieved us in our position in helping women in developing countries, that wish to immerge in the economical, social and political world, as most of professional arena are still unexploded due to their status or social condition. We have straight understood that thought your ‘channel’ the association of women entrepreneurs in Togo can count on a major interlocutor with whom we wish to design programs that can promote women entrepreneurs within the private sector in Togo. We keep the hope and the will to work closely so that your enormous work bring their fruits.


	Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) Former UN General Secretary Peruvian Ambassador in Paris
	I have received your kind communication, in which you inform me about the foundation you chair, whose principal objective is to support and reinforce the work of women entrepreneurs in developing countries through a world wide information network. I wish to congratulate you for the initiative, which, if successful in my country, will provide numerous women entrepreneurs with a useful tool to develop their business and better integrate into the global economical system
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	Mr. Kwame Pianim (Ghana) Economist Former Presidential Candidate in Ghana
	"Many thanks for the information sent to me on the objectives of your Foundation and the role you might play in our search for ways and means igniting and sustaining private sector engagement in poverty reduction and the attainment of the Millenium Development Goals of the Secretary general of the UN. I can see how your Foundation can add value in the provison of technical assistance for improving the skills of women entrepreneurs especially in developing countries such as mine where their immense contribution is often not recognised fully enough in national statistics. And the linkage of women entrepreneurs in the manner you describe can create positive synergies for productivity increases. It will also help create links to the informal economy and thereby start the formalisation of the sector bringing it closer to access to capital and a lower cost economic environment. Do you have some best country examples the Commission can use? Do you have examples of successes achieved through intervention by your Foundation that can be examined for possible use as an intervention model or adapted for next best country application by the commission? . Can you sketch the broad contours of the sort of pilot project the Commission can examine? I look forward to hearing from you. Personal best wishes" Kwame Pianim


	Mrs. Adelina Trujillolanda (Mexico) Chief of the Women State Program Mexico
	Working for the Women State Program (Programa Estatal de la Mujer Xalapa in Mexico) I personally think that the strategy of the EVE-olution Foundation to project all boys and girls around the world is a loyal labor that deserve great recognition among Mexican women, being myself a Mexican women. On behalf of thousand of Mexican women I want to express my support in all your futures projects, as its goal make me feel like a member of it.



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