A non-governmental organisation, Women’s Technology Empowerment, has appealed to female students to shun cultural beliefs and take charge of their future.
The Organisation, WTEC, saddled with the responsibility of empowering women and girl-child to become future leaders and actors, held an event sponsored by CUMMINS at the Oregun Junior High School in celebration of the International Day of Girl Child.
The keynote speaker, an engineer from CUMMINS, Favour Okorodas, in her address, titled, ‘Our time is now – our rights, our future,’ said, “I will use PC2 to describe how the students can do well in their chosen career paths, which is Patience, Competence and Creativity. They should patiently walk through the process of studying while they get competent and become creative.”
She said, “The students need to take charge of their future and not allow the cultural beliefs and biases against the female gender to deter them from studying their dream course and becoming the best of who they can be.”
The Executive Director, WTEC, Mrs Oreoluwa Lesi, represented by the Programmes Head, Mrs Mariam Abdusallam, in her goodwill speech, told the students to utilise the opportunity provided to them to learn from experts in the industry and take a cue.
The students were further divided into mentorship and workshop sessions where some were taught hands-on projects on how to make solar-powered phone chargers and power banks while others were trained on how to choose a career path in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The event was graced by the principal, Mrs Ajimuda, female teachers from the school, and representatives from CUMMINS.
