By FUNMI AJUMOBI
Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) held its annual Women Mentoring Walk in collaboration with Idea Builders last week in its Ikeja, Lagos. At the talk session, Mrs. Awesiri Eyieyien, CEO of Décor and Design Victuals Ventures, advised women to empower themselves economically, socially and financially through education.

According to Eyieyen, women are nation builders and, if educated, will reduce anti-social behaviours like prostitutions, cultism and armed robbery. She said since lack of finance is the major cause of problem in the family, women are usually the most affected because they have the tendency to nurture and when there is not enough money to take care of the family, a woman can have nervous breakdown but an educated woman will go out and earn money to supplement the family income.

She advised young women to pursue more than their first degree because in modern times, first degrees are synonymous with school leaving certificate. Also speaking at the event, Mrs. Emmy Oyekunle, Executive Director of Kudirat Abiola Initiative for Democracy (KIND), explained that the Women Mentoring Women Walk program is an annual walk in which established women leaders and rising women professionals convene and walk together in their community.

According to Oyekunle, the walk was started by a young woman called Mrs. Lucy Kanu and since inception in 2009, women from different professional sector has been brought to mentor younger girls on wide ranging issues and it can be said that a lot has been achieved because lots of the mentees have had their issues clarified and some of them have moved on to achieved success in their chosen fields.