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\nwomen are mothers and they are grateful for that every day. More than anything
\nelse they want to be by their children’s side and of course to be self-reliant.
\nFlorentina Balo\u015f is a project coordinator within the ‘Work at Home Moms Romania’
\nAssociation (WAHM) and next she will tell us more about the community of mother
\nentrepreneurs and their success stories. WAHM is a not-for-profit association
\nwhose purpose is to provide professional support to mothers.<\/p>\n
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The idea of this association emerged out
\nof necessity, of the need to accumulate information. And what better way to do
\nthat if not through networking sessions? These meetings take place every month,
\nbecause we want to start together on this path of entrepreneurship, which we
\nconsider wonderful. We want to support mothers in their decision to work from
\nhome or to start a business.<\/p>\n
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In most of the cases, the decision to work from home is made when the
\nwoman becomes pregnant. At that very moment they start asking questions about
\nhow it will be possible for them to spend more time with their kids or how to
\nimprove their relationship with the kids, the quality of the time spent
\ntogether with the kids, because a rested and relaxed mother or a mother with a
\nwell-established schedule can pay more attention to her kid. At that moment, they
\ndecide to either work from home or to start a business. Irrespective of what
\nthey may choose, we are there to support them.<\/p>\n
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We
\nasked Florentina Balo\u015f if there are many mothers joining the WAHM community: <\/p>\n
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We organize these meetings ‘Mother entrepreneur connect networking’ all over
\nthe country. Our community is the largest one in the Bucharest-Ilfov area.
\nMothers have joined our community along the years and they have attended almost
\nall the events we have held. In order to have quality meetings, we prefer to
\nhave about 30 participants. In certain months we had more requests for support,
\nso we had to organize two or three such meetings. But generally we prefer
\nmeetings with 30 participants, for them to be interactive.<\/p>\n
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Among
\nthe events organized by ‘Work at Home Moms Romania’ Association we can mention
\nChristmas fairs, Easter fairs, or other fairs devoted to the celebration of spring
\nor femininity. We asked Florentina Balo\u015f about the professions of the mothers
\nwho join the association:<\/p>\n
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They come from all walks of life:
\nhand-made manufacturing, services, graphics, accounting, architecture. There
\nare mothers who make crochet items, who want to preserve the traditional
\ncostume, therefore we organize many traditional gatherings that start from the
\nMum connect meetings.<\/p>\n
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Next
\nFlorentina Balo\u015f will enlarge upon the support offered by the association<\/p>\n
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During our meetings we focus a lot on
\ncooperation. We practically show them the efficiency of cooperation and urge
\nthem to cooperate. And we are happy to discover that many mothers have started
\nto cooperate with others. We want to boost their confidence, because, in our
\nopinion, the main obstacle in the way of success is the lack of confidence, of
\nself-confidence.<\/p>\n
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At the
\nbeginning of the year the ‘Mother entrepreneur connect networking’ meets to set
\nout the plans for the future. Florentina Balo\u015f is back at the microphone with
\ndetails: <\/p>\n
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As to our plans for the future, we want
\nto carry on with these meetings, to take them to another level, in the sense of
\nbringing experts as guests of the meetings who should talk, for at least an
\nhour, about various issues such as entrepreneurship or parenting, because it is
\ndifficult enough to be a working-at-home-mother.<\/p>\n
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