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      <image:caption>Stimbok CEO Rehana Malik-Mbanga at the PSLO Climate Smart Agriculture Mission at the World Bank Group with Seydou Bouda, Executive Director for West Africa and Pierre Laporte, Country Director for Coté d’Ivoire for the World Bank.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Women in Agriculture Commodities - Stimbok Commodities</image:title>
      <image:caption>With access to competitively priced commodities from Africa, Brazil, Canada, Ukraine, and the USA; Stimbok Corporation is providing food security solutions.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2022-02-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>About Us - When African Women Talk</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women must take a special interest in supporting other women in order to help make gender equality a reality. We need to amplify women whose voices are unheard, reach out, and pull women up the ladder into our circles where we have found success. We need more access to like-minded women that can invest in us by providing access to funds, one on one mentorship, and business consulting that will open doors for more women to play big and win in the areas they have found purpose.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Business Consulting</image:title>
      <image:caption>Running a Black Women-Owned business can be challenging and we all need strategies to help us grow. Whether it is help with your start-up, social media, website, or brand identity we have the tools and are here to help you move to that next level with your business.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Invest in African Women</image:title>
      <image:caption>Access to Finance is one of the key challenges that women-owned businesses face globally. According to a Harvard University report, women have access to only 2.8% of Venture Capital globally. In more challenged economies in Africa, the figures for female-owned businesses who have access to capital is even more daunting.  As a company, Stimbok is committed to finding and channeling appropriate funds and technical assistance to viable business ideas for SMEs in Canada and across Sub-Saharan Africa to build sustainability and bridge the gender inequality gap. We firmly believe and support the underlying principle that women empowerment programs are widely premised on. Building a woman economically equals increased spending in the areas that improve outcomes for her entire family such as proper nutrition, healthcare, and education. Supporting female enterprise is key to lifting nations out of poverty.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Building Smart Cities</image:title>
      <image:caption>United Nations states that by 2050, it is expected that two-thirds of the world population will be living in urban areas. With more than half of humankind living in cities and the number of urban residents growing by nearly 73 million every year, it is estimated that urban areas account for 70 percent of the world's gross domestic product and have therefore generated economic growth and prosperity for many. As a result, we need to build smart cities. As Africa grows and becomes more urban we will play our role and work to build smart cities.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Agriculture for Africa</image:title>
      <image:caption>Agriculture can be an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. However, the sector is under-performing in many countries in part because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. Women make important contributions to the agricultural and rural economies of all regions of the world and comprise approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force globally and in developing countries. The contribution of women to agricultural and food production is significant but it is impossible to verify empirically the share produced by women. Women’s participation in rural labor markets varies considerably across regions, but invariably women are over represented in unpaid, seasonal and part-time work, and the available evidence suggests that women are often paid less than men, for the same work. It is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, as we promote sustainable agriculture.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Stimbok Commodities</image:title>
      <image:caption>Agriculture represents the largest private sector component in most African countries, employing a large share of the population and accounting for a significant portion of rural income. It is estimated that a $1 increase in agricultural value-added generates a $1.3-1.8 increase in the rural non-farm economy. Agriculture in Africa has significant growth potential given the increasing demand for food crops from domestic markets and cash crops from emerging markets. Sustained growth in the agricultural sector is therefore critical for overall development of many African economies. To support their growth ambitions, African farmers need better access to markets and reliable and accurate information about prices for their goods. In addition, they need better and improved access to finance to make informed investment decisions. On the other hand, agricultural commodity buyers from across Africa need better information and access to products and markets in a timely and cost efficient way. We believe a viable commodity exchange can play an important role in addressing the needs of both African farmers and commodity buyers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Get Involved - Support Our PPE Drive</image:title>
      <image:caption>At Stimbok we believe that every project and every dollar should make a difference. We believe that our partnerships, consulting, and investments should have a positive social and environmental impact in the communities we work in. Stimbok Corporation works with our clients, the Public, and Private Sector to find sustainable development solutions. We appreciate your support in our efforts to delivery high-quality, medical-grade PPE to children and vulnerable people in communities and countries that lack the adequate resources to meet the demand of supplying PPE. Help us in our efforts to bring these necessities to rural communities and disadvantaged people, to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Get Involved - Support Through Micro-Funding</image:title>
      <image:caption>The private sector development is widely recognized by the international community as an engine of sustainable and inclusive economic growth. We are actively working to develop partnerships and investment in the private sector between our Canadian and African clients to provide turn-key sustainable development solutions for bankable projects in Smart Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Infrastructure and Capacity Building. If you are interested in the opportunity of being a project investor, please get in touch with us to discuss our partnership. If you are interested in learning more, please complete the form below and we will contact you.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our vision is to become a leader in sustainable development solutions through innovation, social inclusion, social change, and economic growth. This cannot be achieved without the empowerment and advancement of women in business. Our mandate is to advance gender equality, social inclusion and women empowerment in all business sectors. If you are a leader, and expert in your field or industry, please consider giving back to the community by investing your time in developing and nurturing other women with the desire and passion to grow their business and maintain long term success.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Women must take a special interest in supporting other women in order to help make gender equality a reality. We need to amplify women whose voices are unheard, reach out, and pull women up the ladder into our circles where we have found success. We need more access to like-minded women that can invest in us by providing access to funds, one on one mentorship, and business consulting that will open doors for more women to play big and win in the areas they have found purpose.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Women in Business - Acces to Finance</image:title>
      <image:caption>Access to Finance is one of the key challenges that women-owned businesses face globally. According to a Harvard University report, women have access to only 2.8% of Venture Capital globally. In more challenged economies in Africa, the figures for female-owned businesses who have access to capital is even more daunting.  According to an article by National Geographic in 2019, only 37% of women on average across Sub-Saharan Africa had access to bank accounts compared to 47% of men. In most parts of Africa where the financial gap between the poor and the wealthy is increasingly widening, efforts to tackle issues around poverty and gender parity have not yet achieved the successes hoped for. The resulting lack of inadequate participation of women in Africa’s economies leaves a combined loss of $95 billion USD in lost productivity each year.   Drilling down to the Small and Medium businesses space (SMEs), it is important to note that funding/micro-loans for an SME in Canada could be $10,000 to $20,000 while micro-loans (which can make all the difference) for a small business owner somewhere in Lagos, Nigeria or Lusaka, Zambia could be as little as $250.  As a company, Stimbok is committed to finding and channeling appropriate funds and technical assistance to viable business ideas for SMEs in Canada and across Sub-Saharan Africa to build sustainability and bridge the gender inequality gap. We firmly believe and support the underlying principle that women empowerment programs are widely premised on. Building a woman economically equals increased spending in the areas that improve outcomes for her entire family such as proper nutrition, healthcare, and education. Supporting female enterprise is key to lifting nations out of poverty.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Women Building Smart Cities - Stimbok Infrastructure</image:title>
      <image:caption>According to the United Nations, cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social, human, and economic development. Urban planning, transport systems, water, sanitation, waste management, disaster risk reduction, access to information, education, and capacity-building are all relevant issues to sustainable urban development. The United Nations states that in 2008, for the first time in history, the global urban population outnumbered the rural population. This milestone marked the advent of a new 'urban millennium' and, by 2050, it is expected that two-thirds of the world population will be living in urban areas. With more than half of humankind living in cities and the number of urban residents growing by nearly 73 million every year, it is estimated that urban areas account for 70 percent of the world's gross domestic product and has therefore generated economic growth and prosperity for many. As a result, we need to build smart cities. As Africa grows and becomes more urban we will play our role and work to build smart cities.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Building Luxury homes at competitive prices is what we do.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Meet our CEO</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rehana Malik-Mbanga was born and raised in Zambia, a Southern African nation where she completed the first part of her schooling. She proceeded to study Biomedical Sciences at Griffith University in faraway Australia. Rehana would later earn a degree in Psychology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town holds many fond memories for her. She met the love of her life while studying there. The two would later get married and immigrate to Edmonton, Alberta where they have sown deep roots and built a family that has grown to include 3 lovely children.  Rehana has cross-cutting experience in community development, public health, gender affairs, and entrepreneurship. She comes from a long line of women entrepreneurs who have had to face personal challenges alongside building and sustaining a business in a world with a wide gender gap. Rehana’s father a serial entrepreneur made his money supplying commodities like salt and sugar in the early ’90s in Zambia. Watching her father navigate several businesses forged her early outlook around empowering women to succeed in business and life generally. In her own journey of starting a business and mothering young children, the lack of diversity and representation around board tables that she has had the privilege to sit on became of particular concern. She quickly realized that her brilliant friends in the immigrant community in Canada may never grow past the small enterprise stage based on a lack of adequate family support, political representation, and mentorship. Much like she had seen in various parts of the world, access to finance plagues women in Canada as it does in Africa. Rehana’s will to see minority women in her community grow and excel in various spheres and businesses led her to co-create Women Talk Africa. This is a Canada-based platform that convenes women of African descent to table social issues affecting growth. The forum also facilitates strategic partnerships; both formal and informal, with the aim to tackle issues within the African community building on a culture of Ubuntu which in Swahili means Unity. Rehana has founded Stimbok, a social impact enterprise with operations in Canada, Cote D’Ivoire, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Nigeria. Stimbok supports sustainable development projects which improve entrepreneurship, gender parity, food security, and healthcare access through agribusiness, energy, and infrastructure projects.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Chief Operating Officer</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women Talk Africa (a branch of Women Talk) celebrated the first event in February 2019, Women Talk Africa was created to showcase the amazing women in our community that are owning their power and doing amazing things. Women Talk created a safe space for women of different races to interact and share their stories. In the hope that by sharing our stories, we will realize that we might look different on the outside, but inside we're all the same. We invite all women to join us for this impactful evening filled with women that will share their extraordinary stories.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Chief Financial Officer</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women must take a special interest in supporting other women in order to help make gender equality a reality. We need to amplify women whose voices are unheard, reach out, and pull women up the ladder into our circles where we have found success. We need more access to like-minded women that can invest in us by providing access to funds, one on one mentorship, and business consulting that will open doors for more women to play big and win in the areas they have found purpose. Access to Finance is one of the key challenges that women-owned businesses face globally. According to a Harvard University report, women have access to only 2.8% of Venture Capital globally. In more challenged economies in Africa, the figures for female-owned businesses who have access to capital is even more daunting.  According to an article by National Geographic in 2019, only 37% of women on average across Sub-Saharan Africa had access to bank accounts compared to 47% of men. In most parts of Africa where the financial gap between the poor and the wealthy is increasingly widening, efforts to tackle issues around poverty and gender parity have not yet achieved the successes hoped for. The resulting lack of inadequate participation of women in Africa’s economies leaves a combined loss of $95 billion USD in lost productivity each year.   Drilling down to the Small and Medium businesses space (SMEs), it is important to note that funding/micro-loans for an SME in Canada could be $10,000 to $20,000 while micro-loans (which can make all the difference) for a small business owner somewhere in Lagos, Nigeria or Lusaka, Zambia could be as little as $250.  As a company, Stimbok is committed to finding and channeling appropriate funds and technical assistance to viable business ideas for SMEs in Canada and across Sub-Saharan Africa to build sustainability and bridge the gender inequality gap. We firmly believe and support the underlying principle that women empowerment programs are widely premised on. Building a woman economically equals increased spending in the areas that improve outcomes for her entire family such as proper nutrition, healthcare, and education. Supporting female enterprise is key to lifting nations out of poverty.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Chief of Business and Corporate Development</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lunzaya Nlandu, BBA, PMP Founder &amp; CEO of Bokasi Ventures Corporation Lunzaya brings more than 15 years in business development, project coordination, and sales experience in the construction field paired with numerous entrepreneurial endeavors. Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Western Carolina, NC, USA. Lunzaya runs the company’s operations and financing and oversees strategic expansion.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Chief Client Relations Officer</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women must take a special interest in supporting other women in order to help make gender equality a reality. We need to amplify women whose voices are unheard, reach out, and pull women up the ladder into our circles where we have found success. We need more access to like-minded women that can invest in us by providing access to funds, one on one mentorship, and business consulting that will open doors for more women to play big and win in the areas they have found purpose. Access to Finance is one of the key challenges that women-owned businesses face globally. According to a Harvard University report, women have access to only 2.8% of Venture Capital globally. In more challenged economies in Africa, the figures for female-owned businesses who have access to capital is even more daunting.  According to an article by National Geographic in 2019, only 37% of women on average across Sub-Saharan Africa had access to bank accounts compared to 47% of men. In most parts of Africa where the financial gap between the poor and the wealthy is increasingly widening, efforts to tackle issues around poverty and gender parity have not yet achieved the successes hoped for. The resulting lack of inadequate participation of women in Africa’s economies leaves a combined loss of $95 billion USD in lost productivity each year.   Drilling down to the Small and Medium businesses space (SMEs), it is important to note that funding/micro-loans for an SME in Canada could be $10,000 to $20,000 while micro-loans (which can make all the difference) for a small business owner somewhere in Lagos, Nigeria or Lusaka, Zambia could be as little as $250.  As a company, Stimbok is committed to finding and channeling appropriate funds and technical assistance to viable business ideas for SMEs in Canada and across Sub-Saharan Africa to build sustainability and bridge the gender inequality gap. We firmly believe and support the underlying principle that women empowerment programs are widely premised on. Building a woman economically equals increased spending in the areas that improve outcomes for her entire family such as proper nutrition, healthcare, and education. Supporting female enterprise is key to lifting nations out of poverty.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stimbok Team - Chief Investments Officer</image:title>
      <image:caption>Women Talk Africa (a branch of Women Talk) celebrated the first event in February 2019, Women Talk Africa was created to showcase the amazing women in our community that are owning their power and doing amazing things. Women Talk created a safe space for women of different races to interact and share their stories. In the hope that by sharing our stories, we will realize that we might look different on the outside, but inside we're all the same. We invite all women to join us for this impactful evening filled with women that will share their extraordinary stories.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Meet our CEO - Rehana Malik-Mbanga</image:title>
      <image:caption>It is wonderful to meet you. Thank you for visiting our website and I hope to partner with you as we tackle the inequalities that we experience daily as people of color. I founded Stimbok with my husband Nigel Mbanga in 2016 in our kitchen and today we have grown a reputable brand that has several branches and partnerships in both Canada and Africa. As a mother of three, building this brand has been both rewarding and challenging. Standing in my purpose has been even harder but I am grateful to keep working to build the Stimbok I dreamt of as a child. My parents ran a family business in Ndola, Zambia where I grew up. I witnessed the impact that the local butchery they had and my dad’s salt, sausage casing, and spice business had not only on our local town but also on other businesses like his that he supplied. Entrepreneurship is in my blood it is what I wake up to do every morning. Finding solutions to social and systemic issues makes my energy vibrate at a very high frequency. Even though I have studied Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Psychology at universities in Canada, Australia, and South Africa; I am proud to be a serial social entrepreneur. I look forward to Stimbok’s future and the sustainable solutions we build and grow with our partners globally.</image:caption>
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