Mother Entrepreneurs

mother entrepreneurs A feature devoted to the 'Work at Home Mums Romania' Association (WAHM)

Many women are mothers and they are grateful for that every day. More than anything else they want to be by their children's side and of course to be self-reliant. Florentina Baloş is a project coordinator within the 'Work at Home Moms Romania' Association (WAHM) and next she will tell us more about the community of mother entrepreneurs and their success stories. WAHM is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to provide professional support to mothers.


"The idea of this association emerged out of necessity, of the need to accumulate information. And what better way to do that if not through networking sessions? These meetings take place every month, because we want to start together on this path of entrepreneurship, which we consider wonderful. We want to support mothers in their decision to work from home or to start a business."



"In most of the cases, the decision to work from home is made when the woman becomes pregnant. At that very moment they start asking questions about how it will be possible for them to spend more time with their kids or how to improve their relationship with the kids, the quality of the time spent together with the kids, because a rested and relaxed mother or a mother with a well-established schedule can pay more attention to her kid. At that moment, they decide to either work from home or to start a business. Irrespective of what they may choose, we are there to support them."


We asked Florentina Baloş if there are many mothers joining the WAHM community:


"We organize these meetings 'Mother entrepreneur connect networking' all over the country. Our community is the largest one in the Bucharest-Ilfov area. Mothers have joined our community along the years and they have attended almost all the events we have held. In order to have quality meetings, we prefer to have about 30 participants. In certain months we had more requests for support, so we had to organize two or three such meetings. But generally we prefer meetings with 30 participants, for them to be interactive."


Among the events organized by 'Work at Home Moms Romania' Association we can mention Christmas fairs, Easter fairs, or other fairs devoted to the celebration of spring or femininity. We asked Florentina Baloş about the professions of the mothers who join the association:


"They come from all walks of life: hand-made manufacturing, services, graphics, accounting, architecture. There are mothers who make crochet items, who want to preserve the traditional costume, therefore we organize many traditional gatherings that start from the Mum connect meetings."


Next Florentina Baloş will enlarge upon the support offered by the association


"During our meetings we focus a lot on cooperation. We practically show them the efficiency of cooperation and urge them to cooperate. And we are happy to discover that many mothers have started to cooperate with others. We want to boost their confidence, because, in our opinion, the main obstacle in the way of success is the lack of confidence, of self-confidence."


At the beginning of the year the 'Mother entrepreneur connect networking' meets to set out the plans for the future. Florentina Baloş is back at the microphone with details:


"As to our plans for the future, we want to carry on with these meetings, to take them to another level, in the sense of bringing experts as guests of the meetings who should talk, for at least an hour, about various issues such as entrepreneurship or parenting, because it is difficult enough to be a working-at-home-mother."



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