CISSCORP HOLDING INTERNATIONAL, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and PADESS (Professional Development Assistance for Women), conducted an inaugural visit to the CISSAGRO project this Thursday in Kaolack, specifically in KABATOKI. This investment amounts to 19.5 billion CFA francs for the construction of an agribusiness complex. The project will increase the income levels of women's groups and contribute to harnessing the demographic dividend in the region.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with CISSCORP Holding International, conducted an inaugural visit to the CISSAGRO SA agribusiness complex in Kaolack.
According to Mabingué Ngom, UNFPA Regional Director for West and Central Africa: "This is a private initiative by a Senegalese man, the president of CISSCORP, who launched a very good initiative called CISSAGRO. For me, this is an initiative aimed at promoting women's capital in Kaolack. It represents an investment worth 19.5 billion CFA francs.
For Mr. Ngom, "It is very valuable to be able to integrate the exploitation, processing, and marketing of local products with a local brand into the economic structures of a city like Kaolack. By multiplying these initiatives, we hope that life in Kaolack will be rosy, but also in Senegal."
The President of Cisscorp Holding International explained: "The objective of this visit is to initiate a discussion on avenues of collaboration between CISSAGRO SA, a project that aims to directly employ 3,000 women in the region, and UNFPA with a view to strengthening the empowerment of women in the region through the income they could generate." CISSAGRO SA has other projects, an oil mill that we are preparing and a water plant and a 20-hectare farm, on which we are working, to allow CISSAGRO to be an industrial machine.
