Scholarship places now available on our Mentoring Women in Business programme!
We are delighted to announce a host of brand-new Mentoring scholarship places, brought to you by Huriya Private.

I learned a lot from my mentees, they were brilliant businesswomen whose insight and perspective I really valued.
We are excited to be launching the Mentoring Scholarship and look forward to offering this opportunity to more women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries who have previously participated in our programmes. Offering scholarships means we can further support the talented and experienced women entrepreneurs in our alumni community and enable them to continue their professional growth, while reaching even more women as their mentees.
Katerina Pawlowska-Hanafin, COO of Huriya Private, has previously twice been a mentor on the mentoring programme, and so recognises the benefits this opportunity will provide to mentors as well as the mentees they support. She said: “As a mentor, I really enjoyed the opportunity to support entrepreneurs from all over the world. I learned a lot from my mentees, they were brilliant businesswomen whose insight and perspective I really valued. I am delighted that at Huriya Private we will be able to give women entrepreneurs from low and middle income countries the opportunity to benefit from Mentoring scholarship places and continue their professional growth as mentors.”

Developing business and personal skills are a key part of the mentoring journey for both mentees and mentors. Mentee turned mentor, Van Dang, CEO and Founder of Savvycomm in Hanoi, Vietnam, can speak personally to the benefits of being both a mentee and a mentor. When we spoke to her earlier this year, she said:
“Being a mentee was a wonderful experience, not only for me but for my mentor too, and we’re still friends. We worked on business strategy and had great conversations. I also wanted the experience of being a mentor; I knew that a mentor can help the mentee but also learns from her as well. And I wanted to give back to this community that had helped me grow.
I believe that mentoring is a must in any entrepreneur’s journey. I think we can really inspire each other and gain confidence from one another that the direction we are going in is the right one. It makes our lives more meaningful.”
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