Black Woman Arise Women's Health Foundation
What does your company do?
Black Woman Arise Women's Health Foundation is a non profit organisation that is aimed at promoting the sexual reproductive health and rights of women and girl, with a specific focus on those disadvantaged communities. This is done through education and capacity building, bridging the gap between women in the community and healthcare professionals and provision of healthcare services. We believe that women, through the different roles that they play, are the backbones of our society and that if you heal a woman, you heal a community and you heal a nation.
What is your biggest success?
I consider my greatest achievement to be living a life of purpose, servanthood and alignment. I get to wake up every single day, save women's lives and call it work. I get to dream how women's health can be better in my lifetime and wake up the following day to work towards making it happen. My life's work happens to also be my work, which is alignment that I believe I am privileged to have. I also believe that it is this same alignment that has inspired me to work with excellence, impacting thousands of women and to have my work recognised by publications and organisations such as Mail and Guardian, Sunday World Nation Builders Development, Africa's Brightest Young Minds, International Confederations of Midwives, Align Maternal and Newborn Health, Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation and so many more.
What has been your biggest hurdle?
My biggest hurdle has been navigating the leadership space as a young woman with a background in Nursing and Midwifery. Society mainly recognises women and Nurses and Midwives to be in a subservient position. This was difficult for some leaders to engage with me at the level of being a partner and problem solver and not someone to simply take orders.I quickly learned that I had to work harder to prove myself through my work and excellent work ethic in order to make others see that I have a seat at the table, particularly when it comes to discussing issues that pertain to women's health. I am incredibly inspired by the Nurses and Midwives who are trailblazers and disruptors, taking up space and showing the world that not only are we independent and autonomous in our profession but we are also capable and our strength and impact is not limited to the four walls of the hospital.
