Aimed at small business owners and potential entrepreneurs, the Meeting of Brazilian women: from them to them brought together more than 500 participants on Tuesday (18/4), in Araçuaí, in the Jequitinhonha Valley. Free, the event was promoted by Sebrae Minas and the Sigma company Lithiumin partnership with the Brazilian female group – created in 2013 by 40 executives from different segments and chaired by businesswoman Luiza Helena Trajano – which aims to encourage female protagonism in the solutions to the country’s problems.

A PROTAGONISM THAT TRANSFORMS

The purpose of the meeting was to help women take ideas to paper, grow and improve their businesses, especially in the towns of Araçuaí and Itinga, where the company Sigma Lithium is located. The training was offered by Sebrae Minas through the Sebrae Delasan accelerator program aimed at increasing the chances of success for women-led ideas and businesses.

This partnership is part of the Dona de Mim program, which offers microcredit to small entrepreneurs and created by Grupo Mulheres do Brasil, including Ana Cabral, CEO of Sigma Lithium, is one of the co-founders. Recently, the expansion of the program was announced, whichfor the benefit of 10,000 women in the region where the company operates. The proposal is supported by several bodies of the State of Minas Gerais, such as FIEMG, and is in line with the company’s commitments to ESG principles, which constitute its main pillar.

“Our initiative aims to encourage small businesses for women, regardless of their of their credit score, who work, for example, in sewing, confectionery, handicrafts, among other products and services, and the partnership with Sebrae is extremely important to increasingly professionalize and train these women,” says Ana Cabral.

beyond the paletteVirtual presence of the president of the board of directors of the magazine Luiza and the president of the group Women of Brazil, Luiza Helena Trajano, the meeting had the participation of the vice president of the group and founder of the shirt shop Dudalina de Santa Catarina, Sonia hessby the biggest entrepreneur in the Brazilian fashion world, Martha Medeiros, by Ana Cabral and by businesswomen Larissa Ribeiro, owner of the brand Larissa Ribeiro semi jewelry and maintainer of the NGO Projeto Conecta Mundo, and Silvia Chaves, owner of Sorvete Amigo.

The event brought models of successful cases of national entrepreneurship, such as Sônia hess and Martha Medeiros, mediated by Ana Cabral, to discuss practical topics, such as production, cash flow and disposal, for example.

The partnership between Sebrae Minas and Sigma Lithium is seen by the institution’s analyst Thalli Coutinho as an opportunity to drive economic development in the Jequitinhonha Valley through female entrepreneurship and generate social transformation by mapping production chains.the potentials of the region. “We are going to initiate a set of actions aimed at improving the quality of products and services already run by women, encouraging the development of new businesses and increasing the formalization of businesses in the territory,” he specifies.

dam-free project

Actions to generate income and ensure sustainability in the Jequitinhonha Valley region, where Sigma operates Lithiumare priorities for the company, which is committed to preserving ecosystems, fighting climate change and bringing prosperity to the communities in which it operates.

Sigma Lithium it has a state-of-the-art sustainable processing plant: it uses no harmful chemicals, has no tailings or dams, and is 100% renewable energy efficient and 100% environmentally friendly. recycled water.

About Sigma Lithium

Sigma Lithium (NASDAQ: SGML, TSXV: SGML) is a Canadian company dedicated to powering the next generation of electric vehicle batteries with high-purity, environmentally friendly lithium.

Sigma Lithium is currently under construction in its Grota do Cirilo project in Brazil, which includes a state-of-the-art processing plant with green technology that uses 100% renewable energy, 100% recycled water and 100% dry straw waste. The project also represents one of the largest and highest deposits of spodumene hard rock lithium batteries from the Americas. Sigma Lithium has been at the forefront of environmental and social sustainability in the EV battery materials supply chain.