A short event transcript excerpt featuring Nataliey Bitature and several speakers. Bitature introduces herself as a social entrepreneur committed to serving 10 million young African women and to unlocking women’s leadership and entrepreneurship. Other speakers amplify this mission by describing structural barriers facing women, urging young women to take action, and formally recognizing Bitature with an honorary degree.
I am a woman, a global citizen, a social entrepreneur. My name is Natalie Biteture and I aim to serve 10 million young African women of today. Together, we can finally unlock the potential of our gender and of generations to come.
My work aims not only to unlock women's entrepreneurial potential, but also to elevate the crucial role that women play in their community's development. I have observed and drawn inspiration from women's unwavering commitment to building successful business enterprises. Yet what has been most striking is the similar patterns of challenges women across the world face to enact, advance and sustain the work of leadership that underwrites.
Businesses with transformational results.
I have come to understand these challenges to women's leadership as less about their characteristics. Characteristics than the cultural, social and institutional factors facing women in the workforce.
I urge young women to speak up, to step up, to try. We often underestimate ourselves and what we're capable of. We can't always sit back and wait for someone to give us an opportunity. We have to work together to support each other, to create more opportunities, but also to see one and take it.
On the occasion of the award of an honorary degree to Natalie Baturi in recognition of her services to innovation in social entrepreneurship and youth empowerment in Uganda.
I am a woman, a global citizen, a social entrepreneur. My name is Natalie Bititure and I am personally committed to to positively impacting the lives of 10 million young women over the coming days and years so that we can begin to fully unlock the potential of African women today and generations to come.
Thank you, High Authority. As Chancellor, I admit you to the degree of Doctor of Science. Honoris causa.
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