{"id":276722,"date":"2020-07-16T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=276722"},"modified":"2020-07-20T19:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T22:39:22","slug":"arab-chamber-womens-committee-launched-during-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-chamber-womens-committee-launched-during-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Chamber Women\u2019s Committee launched during webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) Women\u2019s Committee saw its official launch on Wednesday (15) during a webinar hosted by the organization. Dubbed \u201cWahi \u2013 Women Who Inspire,\u201d the Committee will strive to bring Brazilian and Arab women closer together, especially on the business front.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of our Committee is to have Arab and Brazilian women get acquainted, to share experiences in their lines of work and to do business together. It is our deeply held belief that this sharing of experiences will provide the inspiration for us to be able to display entrepreneurship, to accomplish things and to innovate more and more in our day-to-day, our businesses, our lives,\u201d Committee president Alessandra Frisso said. Frisso is the director of research firm H2R Pesquisas, an ABCC member company.<\/p>\n

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Commitee president Alessandra Frisso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to her, the Committee\u2019s three-pillared mission involves economic development, cultural promotion and exchange, and social responsibility and marketing. She explained the rationale behind the choice of name \u2013 wahi<\/em> is Arabic for inspiration. \u201cWomen who inspire us and who inspire other women,\u201d she said, referencing what the future holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then there is a very important singularity to Wahi. What\u2019s alluring about this committee is it will spread awareness of the lifestyles, the differences in behavior, the challenges faced by Arab and Brazilian women. This will enable greater mutual acquaintance to end mystification and break paradigms. We truly believe that in letting all these women\u2019s voices be heard, we will value their ideas and contributions, and we will build bridges that will lead to trust and respect. That is one of Wahi\u2019s primary goals,\u201d Frisso said.<\/p>\n

The Committee\u2019s board sits civil engineer Claudia Yazigi Haddad, historian Silvia Antibas and executive Janine Bezerra de Menezes. Its members are the ABCC\u2019s Daniella Leite, Fernanda Baltazar, T\u00e2mara Machado, Isaura Daniel, Karina Cassapula, Ana Cristina Oliveira and Marina Sarruf.<\/p>\n

ABCC president Rubens Hannun kicked off the event. He remarked that 51% of the organization\u2019s staff are female, and 71% of its C-level positions are women. \u201cOur teams are led by women, and we are happy to have this committee named \u2018Wahi \u2013 Women Who Inspire.\u2019 I would like to begin by saying thank you from the bottom of my heart, and to inaugurate this committee on behalf of the board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The webinar \u201cLow Touch Economy: A New Way of Doing Business,\u201d during which the Committee was launched, was one of the first initiatives of the novel women\u2019s group. Four professionals were invited to discuss the topic and go over the challenges posed to businesses by the pandemic, in Brazil and the Arab countries. The event got over 800 viewers in Brazil and the world.<\/p>\n

Here are two other stories on the webinar:<\/em><\/p>\n

Arab businesswomen discuss their pandemic experiences<\/a><\/p>\n

Democratizing technology a Low Touch Economy challenge<\/a><\/p>\n

You can watch the Committee’s introductory video here:<\/em><\/p>\n