Everyone needs some help when it comes to financing some activities. There is no person in the world that can live alone without some sort of help whether monetary or just the physical help of moving from one point to another. But the most common one is for financial assistance. In many developing countries and even some parts of developed countries, people have had to forego some of their dreams like doing a course at the university or starting their own business particularly because the funds were just too little. But many governments have taken it upon themselves to ensure that their citizens can be able to make ends meet. This is also very beneficial to the government itself because with a more educated population or more productive businesses, the economy will be better.

This is why many of governments have gone out of their way to set aside some cash in form of grants for minority groups. Minority government grants are available to all groups of people as long as they are ranked under minorities. These grants help the beneficiaries satisfy a certain requirement that needs cash that they cannot afford or do not have. For example there are the women education grants which are out there to help women in their schooling activities. They are very popular among the postgraduate students as long as they cannot afford them. Government grants for college women have enabled so many women to change their lives for the better and attain top managerial positions in major corporations in their countries and even abroad.

Other grants like the government grants women owned businesses have enabled such enterprises to become as competitive as those owned by men. The reason why women are viewed as minorities by many governments (especially the in developing countries) is because they do not have as much capability as men do perhaps due to their bodily size or the marginalization by chauvinism. Therefore it has necessitated most countries to have groups that advocate for women rights and the government grants for women owned businesses is one of the products of these groups. Some governments give grants for businesses to start but most of the time they fund a business that is already in operations to finance a certain activity.