The Empowered Sapiens Mulier Initiative (ESMI), a non-governmental organisation for women, has called for an end to abuses and violence against women in all human society.
The group, which made this call at its virtual leadership summit on Sunday in Lagos, said that people must stop applauding abuses on women.
Speaking, Mrs Caroline Cares, an award-winning Inclusion Champion and Coach, who decried various abuses suffered by women, called for education and empowerment of women.
Cares said: “The society believes suffering should be for women when it should not be so.
“Domestic violence should not be applauded by the society, women are not objects of beatings and are going through a lot and such women should run for their lives.
“Women are born to be voiced and not to be voiceless and the society should also help in encouraging women to speak.”
According to her, systematic education should be the bedrock for women.
Cares said that education should not be a privilege but a right for every woman, hence girl-child education should be taken importantly.
She explained that it would be difficult to tell an uneducated woman to leave a ‘toxic relationship or marriage’ but an educated one would leave without being told.
She added: “Women have a lot to contribute to the society. Every woman should acquire skills empowerment.
“Education empowers women to become great and helps them to be a better role model in the society and for the younger girls.”
Also, Mrs Sara Adams, a Transformation Leadership Coach, said abuse on women caused “a strong, and emotionally trauma on every woman.”
Adams noted that she had suffered such abuse before, with her family and friends counselling her to endure instead of encouraging her to leave the abuser.
Adams said: “I believe women are programmed to put up with a lot of things because we claim we do things for love and the society while in reality we should be ready to take up all the challenges.
“We are our own obstacles. If we question the way we educate girls or boys then that would solve lots of the problem we have, happening in the society.
“Let’s use the love we once got to bounce back and uplift others. This might reduce the abuse and failures,” she said.
Speaking, Melody Garcia, a certified Psycho- Neuro Actualisation coach, said that women should also be spiritual and dependent enough to grow, urging them not to be limited or hindered from making impacts because of abuses.
Garcia, also a Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Soul Script LLC, stressed the need for healing from pains of abuses, trafficking, slavery, rape and other adversities being faced by women in the society.
“We should learn to have compassion and forgiveness. We should love and not victimise somebody already hurt. We should love and respect each other.
“The language of love is patience, kindness and compassion,” she said.
Garcia, a Founder and Leader of UNICEF Unite Orlando, called for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
“We are queen of our own land, women are equally strong to men, most women are stronger, contributor,” she said.
In her remarks, Mrs Adaobi Ezeadum, the Founder and Chairman Board of Trustees of ESMI, said that the NGO sought to provide solutions to socio-cultural women and girl-child problems through community projects and activities.
Ezeadum, a Mindset Coach, said that the organisation had helped impact other women by putting them back on the journey to self-discovery or rediscovery.
According to her, she is committed to helping them reprogramme their minds and not letting fear win.
The summit featured so many advocates of women education, empowerment and inclusion as well as crusaders against domestic violence against women worldwide.
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