WEEC Organises Essay Competition for Young Females

In a bid to support and reposition the female gender for growth, Women Empowerment and Enlightenment Campaign (WEEC) has concluded plans to organise a creative essay competition for young girls this month.

The online competition which is targeted at females from age 18-25 in Lagos will run from August 10 to 31 and strives to educate, prepare young females to become entrepreneurs and identify potential talents with productive mindsets.

The competition with the theme ‘How Can Men Contribute to Women’s Development in our Society?’ is aimed at helping writers express their thoughts, creative perspectives, social development plans, solutions for gender equality, and a new cultural value system.

The editors of On’y va want writers to share their most important and relevant position that could change the status of women forever, whether it has been executed before or not.

To enter the competition, participants are expected to send a non-fiction essay of not more than 500 words to weec@ onyvaconcepts.com and stand a chance to win exciting prizes like mobile devices, laptops, scholarships and start-up capital for entrepreneurs. The editors will select 50 out of the first 1,000 entries submitted by August 31 and the results will be announced on select news portals based on novelty, creativeness, writing style and the relevance to theme. According to the Head Coordinator, WEEC, Kayode Odukoya, “the essay competition is a platform created to help develop growing ladies with the possibilities of catching them young. This is just WEEC’s little way of contributing to education growth and we plan to organise it yearly with a mission to transform Nigeria into Africa’s hub of creativity in the next decade.”

Odukoya also stated that aspiring and experienced writers stand to be selected for interesting and intellectual pieces, which would be exhibited to the public to encourage other young females, adding that WEEC is saddled with the responsibility of helping female individuals to strive to be the best in any chosen career. He said the creative essay competition is part of activities marking the upcoming WEECMan 2015 event in September which is a male discussion forum of top professionals with the theme ‘Men Standing up for Women’.