In a bid to groom and empower entrepreneurial women, Eloy Foundation is set to sustain women empowerment through its business sustainable programme.
This was announced recently at a press briefing by Tewa Onasanya, president of Eloy Magazine.
Speaking during the press briefing, Onasanya said that the empowerment programme is a conference done regularly which is hinged on sustaining women, gearing to perform better in their businesses and curbing the rate of business failures.
“Every year, we try to do things special and unique essentially for women empowerment. This year, we are holding a conference sectioned into five master classes and five panel discussions directed at sustaining women.
“Also, they will have access to training, networking, multiple finance as well as mentoring, so we are going to be having women that we will be mentoring. They will have access to free legal clinics, free legal advice, it’s all in a bid of sustaining women,” Onasanya said.
She further said, “We want the numbers of women starting and failing in their business to reduce, we want to help them scale their businesses to the next level and grow their businesses.
“At the end of it all, we will be giving away 1 million for entrepreneurs who need it, to make them scale to the next level.”
She said the platform is for women who have registered businesses that can send in their business plans and personal statement of why they should become a part of Eloy business sustainable empowerment programme.
“Asides this, we also have the Eloy Foundation Network, where thousands of women can join from all over the world. This network gives them opportunity to get information about things that are happening, as well as trainings to enable them grow their businesses,” she added.
She, however, spoke about the misconception of assuming that the CEO is always a man.
“Women can as well be in a higher position. We want to start reducing the assumption that everything up there is done by a man. We want people to start recognising the fact that women are up there too. So we want to start the competition going.
“We want to start getting people thinking right, we want a situation where if you walk into a big company you could meet a man or a woman. We want to people to get off that unconscious norm,” Onasanya further said.
Also speaking at the event, Yetty Ogunnubi, PR director, ELOY Awards & Foundation, said that the system is consistent in empowering women on year to year basis.
“This is a system that works. There is continuity and sustainability, in what we are doing,” Ogunnubi said.
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