A strong new sisterhood of completed girls has formally taken root in Western Jamaica. Dubbed Ladies of Western Jamaica (WOWJa), the newly launched motion is uniting executives, entrepreneurs, educators, and leaders from each the private and non-private sectors with a standard objective: constructing pipelines of energy, mentorship, and financial success throughout the area.
Founder and Chair of WOWJa, Janet Silvera, issued an inspiring name to motion throughout the launch occasion on the Montego Bay Conference Centre on Thursday, April 24. She emphasised the group’s mission to have a good time, elevate, and help girls’s management in all corners of Western Jamaica.
“The ladies of WOWJa usually are not solely simply movers and shakers in their very own proper, however girls who care and who know the facility of lifting others up as they climb,” Silvera stated. “Ladies who perceive that if certainly one of us wins, then all of us win.”
The creation of WOWJa has been a imaginative and prescient 15 years within the making. Silvera shared that the motion was born out of a long-standing need to encourage better collaboration amongst girls within the area—whether or not by closing enterprise offers, referring shoppers, or just fostering one another’s success.
“Actual energy lies in what it’s we are going to accomplish as a bunch,” she declared. “WOWJa isn’t only a title; it’s an announcement and declaration that claims, right here we’re. We’re prepared, and we’re about to shake issues up in the very best manner.”
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Minister of Authorized and Constitutional Affairs, the Honourable Marlene Malahoo Forte, praised the launch of WOWJa and pledged her help, urging members to nurture themselves whereas empowering others.
“I consider that the ladies of this nation have a really particular position to play in a manner that it has not been performed earlier than,” Minister Malahoo Forte stated. “Actual energy lies in what we are able to do collectively.”
Delivering the keynote tackle, Sagicor Financial institution CEO Chorvelle Johnson Cunningham echoed the message of unity and management. She inspired the ladies of WOWJa to empower each other, mentor future leaders, and set new requirements of excellence.
“The change should come, and the change begins in the present day,” Cunningham affirmed.
With robust help from authorities officers and the non-public sector, WOWJa is positioning itself not simply as a community, however as a power for transformational change all through Western Jamaica.
