1 billion Women To Be Supported By WOPAT Start-Up System To Spur Growth
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Research findings have proven that whereas businesses owned by men stand a 35% chance of survival, that of women survive at some 55%, a business advocate, women activist, and President of Women of Power and Transformation(WOPAT, Professor Michelle Walker-Davis has said.
This, according to her, called for urgent measures to ensure that women are given a sound footing to start their businesses.
"A million women businesses start-ups will not do if we want to change the world, but rather a billion," she noted.
She observed the official launch of WOPAT in Accra which is seeking to support over one billion women with business start-ups capital support across Ghana.
She said some women need as low as GHS120.00 to start their business and for which reason the project was launched.
The unveiling ceremony which came off recently in Accra saw in attendance some traditional heads in the Greater Accra including Nana Oye amongst others who welcomed the initiative and encouraged others in the diaspora to emulate the same.
Motivated by Judges 4:6 which says " Then she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying 'Go and deploy troops at Mount Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and the sons of Zebulun", Professor Walker-Davis noted.
She said to change the world, there was the need to create the largest conglomerate which must include women.
"We need each other now more than ever. This movement is for us and led by us," she added.
Adding her voice at the press launch of WOPAT, the Founder and President-General of Women in Leadership International(WILL), Rev. Dr. Nana Yaa observed, adding " Women are the source of human mankind, if you silent women, then you have silent the world."
The President of Queen-mother Foundation, Naa Oye called for unrelenting support for the less privileged including women across Ghana to start and thrive in the Ghanaian society.
Asking about how to raise the funds to support women, Professor Michelle Walker-Davis said that would not be a matter of concern but the willingness of the women to accept and put to work whatever is entrusted to their hands.
According to her, many women captains of businesses in the diaspora were willing to contribute to lifting the standard of others but indigenous businesses must be ready to help as well.
In the end, speakers at the event appealed to women within Ghana to embrace the initiative and make judicious use of the funds which is payable without interest.
