The city of Accra was brought to a standstill as women of substance gathered with glitz and glamour to launch an initiative geared towards the development of one billion successful female entrepreneurs by 2030.
The launch of the initiative saw the participation of foreign and local online audiences via zoom and other social media platforms.
The Women of Power and Transformation (WOPAT) is an initiative that would empower women by offering business advice and consulting them, impacting females and ladies all over the world, providing them with grants, and raising funding for their education.
Speaking at the launch, Prof. Michelle Walker-Davis who is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of WOPAT disclosed that her outfit is determined to work with other partners to create the billion successful women entrepreneurs by 2030.
She said through the initiative, WOPAT will target women that want to be in leadership, women that have an idea of business but do not know how to get it started, or have started but don’t have the money to sustain it.
Through various interventions, these women from parts of the world including Ghana will be resourced to make their lives better through entrepreneurship as well as other ventures that could include going into nonprofit organisations.
According to Prof. Michelle Walker-Davis, although funds are not ready at the moment, her outfit is working to ensure already available funds are made accessible to help women.
“We don’t have a pool of money that is sitting there but we have a pool of money that we know is accessible. I know that there is $850 billion in free money out there so I’m going work like hell to see that we access that and put them in our application for our women,” the WOPAT Founder told the media at the launch.
The successful entrepreneur further indicated that through her latest initiative, she is hoping to have businesses and successful women such as Oprah Winfrey and Meghan Markel come on board to extend a helping hand to uplift their fellow women.
“We are really looking for businesses to support one another to come in with their millions and billions of dollars and then we are going to other successful women for them to give back.
"We have a plan and a strategy that will work. We are not worried about the money. The money will come,”
Prof. Michelle Walker-Davis noted.
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