The latest issue of Guardian Life magazine is celebrating the outburst of female entrepreneurs and inventors.
These four women of inspiration, Glory Edozien, Omilola Oshikoya, Stephanie Obi and Itoro Eze-Anaba,
that grace the cover pages today are focusing on making the world a
better place by changing the narrative on community issues.
These women have used their situations, circumstances and position to create a platform that young women can look up to.
Glory Edozien on creating “InspiredByGlory”:
I wanted to create a space where women can feel empowered. I felt like
we were told what we should be in life based on culture and societal
guides and after a while women stop dreaming, we lose sight of who we
want to become. I wanted to create a platform that allowed women
discover who they were, discover their purpose and have the tools to
live out their purpose.
Glory Edozien
Itoro Eze Anaba on creating Mirabel Center:
Years back I started working on a domestic violence bill in Lagos, I
drafted it and I carried out a campaign for the bill to be passed into
law. During that campaign, I met two teenage girls on the street who
told me their stories. One of them was being raped by her father for the
past 3-4 years and she reported to their church head who told her to
keep quiet. With no place to run to, she went home and continued being
abused by her father. It got me thinking, is there no place for victims
to go to? Is there no refuge? What is on ground? I discovered there was
nothing on ground and in the space of 10 years I developed the Mirabel
Center to help eradicate issues like that.
Itoro Eze Anaba
Stephanie Obi on creating a platform for selling online courses:
I’ve not always done this. I used to make Ankara accessories for a
living and I just decided I was going to teach. I started having
programs to teach people how to make their own accessories and because I
was marketing online, I was getting a lot of people from outside Lagos.
I then decided to build an online school and take advantage of the gap
the internet closes. To my amazement, people started paying for the
classes, learning and sharing testimonies. The effect was more than the
classes, people were gaining confidence in doing what they wanted to do
and the online school created that for them.
Stephanie Obi
Omilola Oshikoya on how her brands will impact Nigeria:
My aim basically is to create wealth for Nigeria. I want to put Nigeria
back on the map as one of the global economic powers and to equip
people with the tools to start these businesses. Entrepreneurship is the
endgame of every society. To get Nigeria to that point we need to
empower the small business owners. It is not just about creating wealth
or living the rich life. I’m hoping to show people how to live the
richer life, by creating wealth, managing this wealth properly, and
impacting the community at large through education, aiding in medical
services, helping the internally displaced persons and so much more. We
need people to use the funds they have created to solve the problems we
have in Nigeria and Africa and that is what I hope to achieve.
Omilola Oshikoya
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