Water Aid Nigeria Celebrates Women In Photoshoot, Calls For Unity, Collaborations

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To commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day 2021 (IWD), Water Aid Nigeria, a social project/CSR arm of fast-growing OOH powerhouse, Slice Media Solutions Limited, organized a charity photoshoot session for women across spheres in Nigeria.

Chief Executive Officer of Slice Media, Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi who is also the Water Aid Charity Champion, explained that the women in the photoshoot session included women entrepreneurs, creatives, influencers among others who had distinguished themselves in their chosen fields.

According to her, the goal is to shine a light and celebrate these women intentionally, and to consistently elevate and support women across the continent. She added that Water Aid chose to intentionally support and celebrate women by having indigenous female-owned/managed businesses collaborate to capture their compelling story.

Relatedly and in the spirit of the commemoration, she urged women across the African continent to embrace peace, remain resolute and united despite differences, explaining that through such would empowerment of womenfolk be achieved, adding that it had become imperative for women to stand up and support other women in clearing negative stereotypes about womenfolk through unity and strategic empowerment.

She further encouraged them to challenge the stereotype that they are in constant competition to bring each other down and do not work together for mutual good. “It is our priority to renegotiate our stake in this new and unfolding world post-COVID, and to amplify how unity in leadership allows us break more glass ceilings and achieve more.

“Women must challenge pervasive stereotypes which consistently groom women to the idea that it’s impossible to work together for mutual good and instead we are in constant competition to bring each other down. These ideas are not true and are just one of the issues which must be highlighted for emotional strength and sustained advocacy,” Okunnu-Lamidi said.

The Water Aid Nigeria project started when the pandemic broke out with the aim to provide drinkable water in the most underserved and disenfranchised communities in Lagos.

Water-Aid Nigeria hopes to ignite a socially aware contemporary society where philanthropic activity is strategically designed towards sustainable societal-level change initiatives. With goals focused on public participation, fragile communities, promotion of CSR compliant trends, building data networks, creating volunteer welfare packages, and accountability and transparency, Water-Aid has been impacting societies since it commenced operations.

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