São Paulo – The Women of Brazil Group [Grupo Mulheres do Brasil], chaired by businesswoman Luiza Helena Trajano, created a hub in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. This Wednesday (31), the entrepreneur participated in a roundtable at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) headquarters in the city of São Paulo and met with the institution’s heads to discuss the rapprochement of the group with the Arab world. The group is a partner of the ABCC women’s committee WAHI – Women Who Inspire. Pictured above, ABCC president Osmar Chohfi and Luiza Trajano.
Women of Brazil is a women’s network with over 100,000 participants, which defends women’s leadership in building a better country. In addition to more than 113 centers in Brazil, the initiative has 43 branches in 25 other countries. At the ABCC meeting, Trajano said the presence in Dubai resulted from the group’s trip to the emirate in March this year, during the Expo 2020 Dubai world exhibition.
Trajano already had a relationship with the Arab world. Still, at Expo 2020, where over 190 countries exhibited in booths and stands, she had more significant contact with nations such as Syria and Saudi Arabia, in addition to the UAE. For the ANBA report, the businesswoman commented on the receptivity she perceives in the Arabs towards Brazil. “They are open to bringing women from Brazil; what they are doing meeting our people is impressive,” she said.
At the meeting, possibilities for rapprochement between the ABCC and Women of Brazil Group were discussed, such as an interaction between the new Dubai hub and the ABCC office in the emirate. The suggestion was made by Chohfi. The aim to strengthen cooperation between Women of Brazil and the women’s committee of the ABCC was also expressed.
“We want to strengthen these partnerships,” said civil engineer Claudia Yazigi Haddad, one of the ABCC and WAHI women’s committee directors, at the meeting. “There’s a lot we can do together,” Trajano said. Research exchange with Arab women and bringing Arab culture to the Women of Brazil Group events were among the possibilities pointed out by the meeting participants.
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Several representatives of Women of Brazil attended the meeting, including CEO Alexandra Segantin, Soraya Smaili (also an ABCC board member), Sônia Hess de Souza, and Beth Goulart. From the ABCC, WAHI women’s committee president and director of the entity, Alessandra Frisso; the vice president of International Relations, Mohamad Orra Mourad; the member of the Guidance and Deliberation Council, Yalid Yazigi; the director of Institutional Relations, Fernanda Baltazar; the secretary-general & CEO, Tamer Mansour; and the cultural and WAHI director, Silvia Antibas.
Translated by Elúsio Brasileiro
