Belizeans are being offered the chance to win $500US by taking a winning photo of working women anywhere in the country in a drive to promote gendered entrepreneurship throughout the world.

The competition is hosted by the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, an educational institution affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is one of the most renowned educational universities in the world.  The Center’s objective is the empowerment of communities and individuals in developing countries through development and business entrepreneurship.  This year, the Second Annual Photo Contest is themed “Women’s Entrepreneurship: Empowerment Through Innovation”. 

The Center believes women are a critical driving force in global prosperity, because an entrepreneurial mother not only exemplifies a positive role model in the community, but is also more likely to disseminate their learnings to their offspring, who in turn inherit greater chances for business success and self-empowerment.  Thus the competition is looking for photographs of entrepreneurial women who have found business opportunities to better their individual, familial and communal standard of living. 

            Photo entries can show an everyday picture of independently working women from anywhere in Belize, be it selling powder bun on the roadside, staffing fruit stalls in makeshift premises, promoting woven baskets at community centres, or displaying jewellery in back yards.  The focus of the theme represents a growing global pattern of moving away from displaying the devastating effects of underdevelopment to publishing images depicting a more dignified, optimistic and inspiring outlook, enhanced through entrepreneurialism.

Applications will be judged by a professional panel according to three key aspects: theme relevance, artistic quality and technical considerations.  The deadline for the competition is Thursday 13th September, and all entrants are asked to send their photo attached to the online application form which can be found at http://decompetition.mit.ed

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