Grooming Centre, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that focuses on enabling financial inclusion among market women and artisans, has launched a photobook on 30 Nigerian women.
The Photobook titled “The Stories of Impact: Real Women, Real Lives, Real Growth,” celebrates the resilience, grit and courage of 30 women and their life-changing journey with Grooming Centre.
The launch was held at the Grooming Centre multi-purpose hall in Ejigbo, Lagos.
Speaking at the event, Dr Akindele Akinsoye, the CEO of Platform Capital, co-sponsors of the event, eulogised women for whom he said the future belonged.
Akinsoye said: “The work that Grooming Centre is doing is very important because by helping women build sustainable enterprises, tooling them, scaling them, skilling them, they are preparing them to build bigger businesses in the future, being that the micro-segment is the conveyor belt of big corporations.”
The highlight of the event was a review of the book by Yale University Fellow and former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili.
Ezekwesili, who joined virtually, lauded the work that the organisation was doing, describing it as incredible.
She described the book as one that tells the story of development done at the micro-level with real impact.
“It is a book that should claim a stand on the shelf of development books,” Ezekwesili said.
She called for measurement and evaluation of the input of women and enjoined relevant policymakers to get copies of the book.
A part of the event was a fireside chat on sustainable efforts for social impact – The Grooming impact, where the Chief Executive Officer, Grooming Centre, Dr Godwin Nwabunka and member, Grooming Centre, Governing Council, Ms. ler Jonathan-Ichaver, fielded questions on the genesis of the centre and other related issues.