Fayemi’s wife tasks govt on women empowerment
Wife of Ekiti State Governor and Founder of Ekiti Development
Foundation (EDF) Mrs. Bisi Fayemi has said educating and empowering
women for leadership positions can be a way out of the nation’s
developmental challenges. Mrs. Fayemi said at Oye Ekiti during the flag
off of her Foundation’s tour of the 16 local government areas of the
state that experience had shown that women were better managers of
resources.
She said: “Women constitute 50 per cent of the population and have been found to be better managers of resources. When you educate and empower women to assume leadership positions at all levels, the developmental challenges confronting the country can be addressed”. She said the tour focussed on women at the grassroots was aimed at sensitizing the women on varieties of issues that could affect their lives. The governor’s wife appealed to individuals and corporate bodies to contribute to EDF for the upliftment of Ekiti women, saying less than N30 million have been received from a total of N60 million pledged by some individuals as contributions to the Foundation when it was flagged off in June, 2011. She said EDF had partnered Globacom Telecommunication Company to empower Ekiti women and multiple birth families in the state. Under the arrangement, about 200 women would be empowered with facilities for call center in each of the 16 local government areas of the state.
She said: “Women constitute 50 per cent of the population and have been found to be better managers of resources. When you educate and empower women to assume leadership positions at all levels, the developmental challenges confronting the country can be addressed”. She said the tour focussed on women at the grassroots was aimed at sensitizing the women on varieties of issues that could affect their lives. The governor’s wife appealed to individuals and corporate bodies to contribute to EDF for the upliftment of Ekiti women, saying less than N30 million have been received from a total of N60 million pledged by some individuals as contributions to the Foundation when it was flagged off in June, 2011. She said EDF had partnered Globacom Telecommunication Company to empower Ekiti women and multiple birth families in the state. Under the arrangement, about 200 women would be empowered with facilities for call center in each of the 16 local government areas of the state.
Source: ABIODUN NEJO NATIONAL MIRROR.
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