BWA hosts Women’s Day project for future leaders
Future women leaders will be treated to a workday project by members of the Businesswomen's Association in Durban on Friday.
THE Durban branch of the Businesswomen’s Association will host its 15th annual workplace project on Women’s Day, Friday 9 August at Coastlands Umhlanga.
Aptly themed Building our Future Women Leaders, the project by Businesswomen’s Association (BWA) aims to provide the businesswomen of tomorrow with the motivation, knowledge and skills they need to make a success of their educational career and future entrance into the business world.
The project caters for approximately 300 to 350 female grade 12 learners from over 150 schools in the greater Durban region, many of whom come from previously disadvantaged schools.
This project is the largest the BWA Durban branch coordinates and is sponsored in its entirety. The BWA Durban branch works with the Department of Education to select the schools which are invited
to participate, the schools send their top three Grade 12 female pupils to a venue where the full-day workshop is held.
Prior to the workshop, the pupils are requested to write an essay which is marked during the event by seven impartial academics.
This year’s topic for the essays is What do you need to be a future woman leader and what do you need to develop or acquire it? The top ten essays receive prizes at the end of the event which in previous years have included laptops, bursaries, cell phones and cosmetics.
The all-day workshop starts with breakfast, before pupils sit through 30 minute talks by successful and influential businesswomen on topics ranging from HIV/AIDS education, how to land that first job, creating a brand of myself and inspirational stories from women who have walked the road to success.Speakers at this year’s event include Nox Luthuli, MD of Bloom Marketing and Farzanah Mall (Associate Director KPMG and Chairperson of the BWA Durban branch), a ten minute video messages from celebrated businesswoman Sbu Mpungose (Editor of Cosmopolitan magazine) and a special message from the First Lady of KZN, Dr. May Mkhize before the essay winners are announced.
