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“CaféMET attracted nearly 2000 women from Colombia, El Salvador and Panama to commemorate the International Day of Women Entrepreneurs”.

The Foundation MET Community, in partnership with Grupo Bancolombia, launched the space “CaféMET: Women, Entrepreneurship, and Talent,” to highlight the role of women entrepreneurs as drivers of the economy and social well-being of the region. The celebration of the International Day of Women Entrepreneurs featured five women leaders and leaders of the exception: as panelists, entrepreneurs Laura Velasquezpresident of Arkangel AI (Colombia), Sonia Montenegrodirector of Hardware monte cristo (El Salvador) and Celia Esquivel, leader of Prefalego (Panama); in the opening, Yanire Braña, chairwoman of the MET Community, and moderated the panel, Maria Isabel Acosta, the director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) of Bancolombia.

The three panelists discussed the main motivations and challenges of running a business and shared with the audience the key recommendations to develop a venture that is sustainable, responsible and innovative. The inspiring testimonies of these three entrepreneurs referents of Latin america affected more than 1700 participants in your online transmission and over 235 by Zoom. Their experiences in sectors that are traditionally male-dominated were of high value; they invited the attendees to the reflection and recognized the key role that women play in any professional field, and labour, as motivate other women to partake in them with courage and perseverance. This was evidenced in the testimony of Maria Isabel Acosta: "I believe in the value and power of female leadership; a leadership that claimed the empathy, reflection, and collaboration".

MET Community is a non-profit organization that has been working for two decades to promote and encourage female entrepreneurship sustainable, responsible and innovative in Latin america, Spain and the united States. For its part, the Group Bancolombia is a leading financial institution, backed by almost 150 years of experience, whose purpose is to promote the sustainable economic development in Colombia, Panama, Guatemala and El Salvador, providing access to solutions for financial and non-financial people, entrepreneurs, businesses and institutions.

Spaces of networking and learning fostered by entities engaged in the closure of gaps in terms of female entrepreneurship, access to finance, social investment and education of high value, are key to highlight the role of entrepreneurship as the engine that drives the economies of their territories. Learn more about the MET here:

https://metcommunity.org/en/actividades/