At Vision Board Party, Experts Urge Women To Visualise, Pursue Ambitions

AT the maiden edition of Virgin Dream’s Vision Board party, women have been urged to move from merely paying lip service to pursuing their goals, dreams and ambitions, to actively envisioning it and going after it.

At the event held in Lagos, co- founder, Kazih Kits Limited and convener of Virgin Dream, Chinedu Azih, said she created it to mentor women who want to advance.

“It was borne out of the passion to empower tomorrow’s women for today’s vision. A lot of women are looking for a platform to help them advance their careers but they don’t know how to go about it and this led me to create this platform to bring people who have succeeded in their own filed to come and put others on the part of growth.

“A lot of popular women we read about and admire all created vision boards. The essence of a vision board is to help you visualize your dreams. Many people don’t know what a vision board is. They start the year without knowing how to grow or manage their expectations and this gave birth to this particular activity to help visualize dreams, aspirations for the year and putting them to reality. There are some men present because they insisted that they also wanted to benefit. In as much as we’re trying to push equality, we know it wont happen overnight but we’re trying in our own little way to close this margin by ensuring better women inclusion.

“Elections are here again and we want to ensure that more women participate and win seats, our preparations start from now, it cannot happen overnight. We need to put more women on the boards of companies, in elective seats and in places where decisions are made.”

Azih said Virgin Dream has indirectly impacted hundreds of women and over 50 women directly since they started.

“Some women were given cash to start businesses, learn trade and so on. I mentor about 50 women presently and I’m hoping to do more especially in security matters, which is my area of specialty.

“I see us collaborating with other women- targeted organisations, locally and internationally, to empower and uplift even more women. Azih who said she doesn’t do what she does for financial gain said her driving force is to see other women thrive. “I was born to do this. It would be so lonely if you get to the top and you don’t see other women with you and you can only do this by pulling your friends and other women along with you as you grow. I’d advice women to be more prayerful, network as much as possible and have a vision and plan for yourself and don’t stop till you achieve it.