ABUJA (Sundiata Post) – The wife of the Vice President of Nigeria, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo , and First Lady of Mozanbique, Mrs. Isaura Nyusi, were among top influential women from all over the world that graced the ongoing #1mother1child conference in South Africa.
The conference, which provides a platform for aspiring women to achieve their full potential, is being organised by African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO), a non-profit organisation with a primary mission to advance the status of African women in leadership positions by creating an empowering platform and harnessing the synergies of alliance.
Speaking on the conference on Tuesday, the publicist, AWLO, Ms Ayanda Ngwane, said that it supports, develops and honours women leaders and creates balance in leadership in Africa.
According to Ngwane, the organisation delivers the African Women in Leadership Conference (AWLC) annually and has always brought together women of excellence across the region.
“It further provides a high level of inspiration, sharing, bonding, sisterhood and networking,” she said.
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She said: “The organisation recently started its first give back project tagged: 1mother1child#. It is estimated that 30 million children remain out of school in Africa and in many areas, the girl child is still denied access to education.
“It is settled fact that education is the passport out of poverty and many other vices that plague women and children in Africa. AWLO’s flagship #1mother1child program is positioned to integrate the instinct, culture, and passion of motherhood into meeting the needs of these left out children, ” she said.
Under this programme, she said, women leaders under AWLO are guided and supported to adopt and nurture a mother/child relationship with one girl or boy child per time outside their immediate families.
Ngwane, who also the hosts “Sharing with Ayanda” an African business and inter-tourism show, noted that “through mentorship, coaching, and material support, each mother shall be responsible to ensure that her child completes their education successfully”.
AWLO, she said, is currently establishing chapters globally to enable us reach out effectively.
“Some of our chapters have commenced their pet projects which is focused on raising the next generation of female leaders and building great minds,” she added.