Robi organized a day-long ‘Mobile Retailer Training’ for 50 girls in Kurigram district to create 100 adolescent retailer girls from the area in 2019 jointly with CARE Bangladesh, a renowned global NGO. CARE is providing smartphones and seed-capital to the girls so that they find it easy to start their career as female retailers selling talk-time, data packs, SIM cards, Mobile Financial Services under this joint initiative on behalf of Robi.
Championed by the global association of mobile operators Robi has taken up this project as part of the Connected Women initiative. The socially responsible initiative is expected to offer a way forward in reducing the gender gap across the country.