WISCAR Hosts ‘Money Marriage’ Screening

Women In Successful Careers (WISCAR) Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday 8th of March, 2020 hosted members of the WISCAR community and the public to the screening of Money Marriage, a documentary film, in commemoration of the International Women’s Day.

Money Marriage documents the experiences of young women entrapped in the traditional harmful practice in a certain Becheve Community in Cross River State. The abhorrent culture promotes the sale of under-age girls into marriage to offset what is often generational debt. The event focused on the central theme of this year’s International Women’s Day “Each for Equal” to celebrate women in Nigeria and dialogue on the issues of gender parity in our communities.

The documentary film screening was well attended by notable women such as Amina Oyagbola, Founder and Chairperson of the WISCAR; Bukola Smith, Executive Director FCMB and

Advisory Board Member WISCAR; Funke Adekoya, SAN, Founding Partner at Aelex; Omolara MichaelNwandu, General Manager Financial Planning MTN and many more. The evening commenced with opening remarks by the Executive Secretary of WISCAR, Fabia Ogunmekan and a formal welcome by the Founder Amina Oyagbola, where she stated that WISCAR had decided to lend its platform to the makers of the documentary to create awareness and stimulate conversations around the rights of every young girl to nurture her dreams.

Amina Oyagbola stated: “It is essential for us to remember that it is the right of every young girl to grow fully into womanhood and to self-actualize whatever her dreams maybe for herself. It is the concern of all of us and it should worry us all greatly as we push for gender parity, that a large proportion of our future generations of leaders are being disenfranchised of their basic human rights.”