APWEN raises awareness campaign for women Engineers as Engr. Attah Cecilia emerges kogi council chairperson.
ATABOR JULIUS LOKOJA
The Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria APWEN has called on parents and young women to take pride in the engineering which has the potential to move the nation forward in ever changing societies
Engr. Joan Ogwuche, Kogi State Coordinator, the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC), made the appeal at the Inauguration of Engr. Attah Cecilia MNSE as the 4th APWEN Chairman and 2024/2025 Kogi Chapter Executives Confluence State held in Lokoja.
Speaking on the topic; “Striking the balance as a successful Professional Career Woman, Wife and Mother”, Engr. Ogwuche pointed out that where families can’t produce female Engineers, they should encourage the marriage of Engineers by their daughters, described the female Engineers as good home makers.
She emphasized that for a workable society that will check the current challenges bedeviling the society in anti social vices by children and husbands, said there is the need for working mothers to strike a balance between work and their home.
While she emphasized on the need for women to contribute to the home through working, she however said the panacea needed to build a better society and family requires professionals and working mothers who are precise, time conscious and all rounders like female Engineers to balance their homes.
“No matter your busy schedules, failure to strike a balance as women professionals, without paying attention to your husbands and children is an error”.
Engr. Ogwuche advised mothers and women to teach their children morals and values, so as not to bring shame to their parents.
“What you get in your old age is a product of what you sow in the lives of your husband and children today. As mothers and professionals, we must make out time to balance our work and family life”.
“Find a definition of balance by making sacrifices, by being flexible in meeting with the peculiarities of your home. Concentrate on your husband and children with honesty on their needs through time management. As women, we need to be discipline in values”.
“Use effective communication strategy to set boundaries for work and family. As women, let’s be transparent to our husbands and our children”.
” Let’s embrace effective communication with our husbands and children towards reducing conflict. We need to know our strength in the house. Let’s appeal for help in the house chores and because we work for money, let’s also allow where necessary for our money to work for us”.
” Let’s show proper care to our mental health by finding a few time of rest”, pointing out that a happy mother has a happy home and that a healthy home translates to a good working environment and home.
” Where the society, husbands and children enjoy the attention of working mothers, the family and society becomes the greatest beneficiary with increase contribution to nation development”.
Earlier in her remarks, Engr. Christina Ojoyi Omotola the 3 APWAN Chairman, Kogi State Chapter, said the vision is to encourage young women in Nigeria to become engineers.
She described the Engineering profession as a catalyst for the much talked about nations advancement in technology.
She added that towards National and global technical development, that Nigeria envisioned, APWEN is to encourage women to achieve professional excellence as engineers and leaders.
She described the objectives of APWEN as providing a forum for promoting sorority amongst female engineers as well as to encourage the study and practice of engineering amongst female nigerians.
Omotola said aside Increasing membership, carrying out advocacy for girls to show interest in Engineering, her tenure has taken the association to a greater height.
Highpoint of the Inauguration was the administration of oath of office on Ebgr. Attah Cecilia. Born in 1967, an indigene of Dekina LGA , a Graduate of Civil Engineering from the Kaduna State Polytechnic, with Water Resources option, Engr. Attah holds a PGD in Civil Engineering from Federal University Minna, later proceeded for her Masters in Civil Engineering in view.
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