Women can make a change in the construction industry that employ a large number of labor force it has been learnt.

Speaking in an exclusive interview in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Tanga Cement PLC Communications and External Affairs Manager, Ms Mtanga Noor said Women can make a change as bricks makers, contractors and even industrialists.

She was speaking on regard to just ended Tanzania Women Chamber of Commerce (TWCC) workshop on the role of women in the fifth phase government industrialization drive campaign that was held recently in Dar es Salaam.

Ms Mtanga said that they spent 8 million to sponsor the workshop but they want to see women integrating in brick making or producing as path in the construction building and industries. “We are promoting women to come in the cement producing business, while giving them platforms to discuss on the best way so that they can become large investors in the near future,” she added.

Addressing during the TWCC workshop the chamber’s Chairperson and Trade Expert, Jacqueline Maleko said that the workshop was aimed to bring together women entrepreneurs and discuss on how they can tap investment opportunities in the country.

“This platform brings together women and give them an opportunity to understand their economic role to tap the existing investment opportunities in textile, manufacturing, cement and other various businesses,” she said.

“Currently we have come across that nine regions in the mainland have explore investment and trade opportunities thus can enable women to invest without unnecessary barriers,” She said that in Kasulu, Kigoma Region major products were sardines and cassavas but due to lack of agricultural inputs these products have being dormant for so long while women can explore and start to cultivate.

Ms Maleko noted that the chamber is also strives to make sure that women crops and products get direct and sustainable market for export while ensuring there is value for money.