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Peinemann Mobilift Group has recently joined the PUM Business Circle. The company, established in 1954, is active in the world of horizontal, vertical and road transport. What started as a family business has today become a one-stop shop, with branches throughout the world.
PUM Netherlands senior experts will support the African network of 150 agricultural and horticultural business incubators AAIN (from the African Union) with knowledge and expertise.
The year 2017 was one of major organisational change for PUM Netherlands senior experts. We invite you to visit www.annualreportpum.nl where we explain in detail all of our core activities in 2017.
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The PUM app is live, so you can stay up to date with the latest news. In this digital version of PUMmagazine you can read interviews, reports and background stories about our contribution to the sustainable development of small and medium-sized companies in emerging markets – in some thirty countries worldwide.
Explosive population growth and rising youth unemployment in Africa call for improvements in education and an increase in employment opportunities in that continent. This was the argument put forward by Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Christiaan Rebergen, during the conference on Youth Employment in Migration Countries. The conference was organised by PUM to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the organisation.
As from 1 June next, Johan van de Gronden will be taking on the position of director of the Dutch Cancer Society (DCS). Together with Fred Falkenburg, haematologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) they will constitute the new two-man Board of Directors of DCS.
IT specialists share knowledge in developing countries and emerging markets
Equinix Inc. has become a participant in PUM Business Circle. In deploying its own IT specialists to serve as PUM experts, Equinix aims to provide support to local entrepreneurs in the SME sectors in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Equinix directly connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centres.
The Hague, 25 January 2018 - PUM launches an initiative in which cooperation with Dutch companies is central. An initiative in which aid and trade truly go hand in hand. PUM Business Circle is an initiative to bring medium-sized and large Dutch companies with activities or ambitions in developing countries together and to work, together with PUM Netherlands senior experts, on challenges in the field of fair trade, international growth and employee engagement.
PUM is set to launch a pilot project shortly in Niamey, Niger, to establish whether we might sort the abundant amounts of refuse left lying around there, with a view to turning some of it into new products. The aim is to segregate sand, plastics and organic waste, for subsequent processing into sand fill, plastic tiles and compost.
In the past, PUM and the Lendahand Foundation already occasionally worked together. They recently made their cooperation more structural by signing a partnership agreement. This combination offers SMEs in emerging economies a combination of knowledge and financing.