Over 500 African women entrepreneurs converge for WIA 2019
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Over 500 African women entrepreneurs converge for WIA 2019
The Women in Africa (WIA) group is set to equip, empower and support hundreds of thousands of African women to engage the world and create a new paradigm with its WIA annual summit initiative, scheduled for Morocco, this month and expected to be attended by over 500 African women enterpreneurs.
Chief Executive Officer, WIA, Mrs Hafsat Abiola-Costello, explained that lack of access to credit is not the only hurdle hindering women empowerment but inability of African women to know what to do and how to do it.
Abiola-Costello, who spoke at a media parley organised ahead of the Annual Summit in Marrakech, Morocco set for June 27-28, 2019, in Lagos on Monday, said the global body, which was created by a French, Ms. Aude de Thuin, is set to use the initiative to offer endowment fund to promote and train women entrepreneurship across the 54 countries in the continent.
WIA is a body driven by passion to support the new generation of leading and high potential African women and to guarantee their impact in the service of Africa.
Themed ‘How African women engage the world and create a new paradigm,’ the 2019 Summit is designed to create a platform for participants to network, mediate initiatives and talents, detect new talents, promote inter-generational transmission, support entrepreneurship and parity through its pillars of action.
“African women represent half of the continent’s population and produce 62 per cent of economic goods. 27 per cent of them in Africa create a business, which is the highest rate on a global scale; 34 per cent are high performers when they hold executive positions, but unfortunately only 8.5 per cent of them are salaried.
“WIA is set to change the perception and ensure another African story is told; a story celebrating women’s will, talent, potential, actions and commitment to create new businesses and forge economic, political and cultural alliances with the rest of the world,” she stated.
Over 500 African women entrepreneurs converge for WIA 2019
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