NEWS & EVENT
Empowering Women as the Focus of Martha Tilaar Group and Asia Pulp & Paper Collaboration
After receiving SDG
Pioneers 2018 award from United Nations Global Compact in New York, Dr. (H.C)
Martha Tilaar also scheduled to represent her company, Martha Tilaar Group, to
do pledge signing with PT Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) (26/9). The collaboration
between two companies will relate to empowering woman that is also become both
part concern.
Through this
collaboration, there will be 1.000 women who who will be trained to identify
and manage local herbal plants, to enable community-level entrepreneurship that
will create alternative livelihood for them and their family. The target is to
reach and train 1.000 women by 2020.
Martha Tilaar Grou
has started a training center for spa theraphy in Kampoeng Djamoe Organik
Martha Tilaar in Cikarang and has provided full scholarship for young womaen
from low income families. To date, Martha Tilaar Group has trained more than
7.500 women from varios areas, such as professional therapists, heralthy herbal
drinks entrepreneurs and in financial management. Â
“APP is very proud
to partner with Martha Tilaar Grou pto empower women within the forest
communities. MTG has proven track record of successfully training and helping
women in Indonesia to be self-sufficient and this is perfectly complements
APP’s mission to censerve natural forests and alleviate proverty,†said Goh Lin
Piao, Managing Director of APP. So does Mrs. Tilaar feel. According to her,
this collaboration is a good opportunity for MTG to expand its empowerment
program amd to reach communities that we previously had no access to. Both
companies wish that this collaboration will give good contribution to women’s
skill enhancement and proverty alligement. Â
This collaboration
is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically addresing the
Goals related to No Poverty, Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Growth,
and Partnerships for the Goals.