{"id":817,"date":"2026-03-12T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/2026\/03\/12\/muandas-craftlab-60-entrepreneurs-already-trained\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:04:59","slug":"muandas-craftlab-60-entrepreneurs-already-trained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/2026\/03\/12\/muandas-craftlab-60-entrepreneurs-already-trained\/","title":{"rendered":"Muanda Craft&#8217;Lab: 60 entrepreneurs already trained !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2024, the Perenco Foundation, in partnership with IECD and RDCED, carried out an assessment of entrepreneurship in Muanda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This analysis highlighted a key need: to train and support local entrepreneurs in order to foster their development in a rapidly expanding economy. <\/p>\n\n<p>It was in this context the Craft\u2019Lab was born: a dedicated space where entrepreneurs can learn, train, exchange ideas and develop their business, while promoting local expertise.<\/p>\n\n<p>To date, Craft\u2019Lab has already supported two groups of 30 entrepreneurs, mostly women, through entrepreneurial and technical training, particularly in tailoring and agri-food processing.<\/p>\n\n<p>On 7 February, during the Craft\u2019Lab inauguration ceremony, 60 entrepreneurs received their certificates in the presence of representatives from the IECD, RDCED, the Perenco Foundation and Perenco employees.<\/p>\n\n<p>A promising project, growing rapidly and making an impact on the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, the Perenco Foundation, in partnership with IECD and RDCED, carried out an assessment of entrepreneurship in Muanda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This analysis highlighted a key need: to train and support local entrepreneurs in order to foster their development in a rapidly expanding economy. It was in this context the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foundation.perenco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}