The Department of Trade and Industry continues its online mentorship program, the Kapatid Mentor ME (KMME), with a new batch of graduates on June 16, 2023.
The 57 mentee-graduates belong to the sectors of processed food, catering services, training services, trading and agriculture.
The KMME Online is developed as the practical delivery mechanism for the same mentorship modules to propel micro and small entrepreneurs to survive and thrive in spite of the unprecedented setbacks that now confront businesses of all types and sizes.
The mentorship program has been implemented since 2016 as a 10-module mentorship program that optimizes weekly face-to-face interactions between the mentors and the mentees with the key goal of boosting the entrepreneurial capacity of the mentees through improved access to Mentorship, Money & Market (3Ms).
The mentees underwent sessions on entrepreneurial mindset, product development, market growth and expansion, creation of business model canvass, operations management, human resource, taxation, and business law among others.
By the end of the program, the mentees presented their business investment plan as a pre-requisite to their graduation.
