Leadership Foundation for African Girl Child and Women announces its forthcoming programme tagged, “Building Winning Attitude to Girl-Child Development.”
Lagos, October 8, 2014 – The Leadership Foundation for African Girl Child and Women announces its discussion and mentoring programme, tagged “BUILDING WINNING ATTITUDE TO GIRL-CHILD DEVELOPMENT”, taking place as follows:
Date: Friday, November 14, 2014
Time: 10 am prompt
Venue: The Purple events centre, 5/7 Ajibola Aluko Street, off Okota Road, Isolo, Lagos.
Leadership Foundation for African Girl Child and Women is a non-profit organization that aims at supporting the Girl- Child and Women to maximise their potentials through a winning attitude. An inclusive provider of advocacy, education and support services, we are here to help the girls and the women because their best counts in our nation’s transformation programme.
The one-day event brings together young girls, career women and social workers in a unique and conducive environment to address issues concerning the girl-child and identifying ways of overcoming such issues. It provides a forum for potential mentees and mentors to meet. It is free, relaxing, interacting and educational. The goal of the programme is to bring girls from the teenage group and above to discuss common problems and get guidance from experienced people.
The seminar is the first in a series that will be rolled out in cities across Nigeria where leading professionals in areas that can enhance the girl-child in maximising her potentials.
Most young girls in their teens and above are faced with various challenges especially in the area of abuse and poverty, resulting in many girls dropping out of school. The programme aims to bridge the gap in awareness and support for the girl-child.
There are things that can be done to help reduce or completely eradicate these challenges placed on the girl-child, exposure to certain trainings, access to counsellors, mentors, leaders, NGOs, to mention but a few, can go a long way to restore their mindset on how the society sees them and become better persons in life. They are actually looking for whom to air their views and good listener as well.
Building Winning Attitude to Girl-Child Development is the brainchild of Viola Okoro, Executive Director for Leadership Foundation for African Girl Child and Women, who as a girl-child, experienced some of these challenges, developed to overcome them and discovered the magic of the winning attitude in her studies abroad. “I worked so hard to get to the stage I am today and strongly believe that we need to pull experiences and share our success secrets with our girls, so that they would do better than most of us and maximise their output”, says Okoro, a wife and mother.
Experienced women professionals are billed to deliver papers at the seminar, while female mentors and those willing to share their experiences are invited to participate. Interested speakers/mentors/partners can contact Viola Okoro on 08033510582 or via email: viola.okoro@yahoo.com.
Charity ALIMI
Programme Manager.
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