The 8 March International Women's Day Handicrafts Exhibition opened at MÜSİAD. Speaking at the event, MÜSİAD President Mahmut Asmalı said: "As MÜSİAD, we are setting forth a vision that touches every field of life and works diligently to keep alive in the best way the values inherited from our age-old culture." MÜSİAD Women President Meryem İlbahar, who shared her assessments in the program, said that as MÜSİAD Women they will hold an International Awareness Summit on 14 June. It was also reported in the program that the promotional activities relating to the Africa House project will expand with the stand opened at MÜSİAD.
The 8 March International Women's Day Handicrafts Exhibition, held under the coordination of the Women's structure of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSİAD) with the contributions of the Women's unit of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms (İHH), opened at the MÜSİAD Head Office. Speaking at the opening program, at which the artist Hicret Nida Bulut gave a piano recital, MÜSİAD President Mahmut Asmalı emphasized that MÜSİAD touches every field of life and works to protect and keep alive the cultural heritage in the best way. Sharing her thoughts on the program, MÜSİAD Women President Meryem İlbahar said: "We are a structure that holds the conviction that the true empowerment of women will come about through her being supported in every field. As a part of this understanding, we have come together with you today on the occasion of an exhibition and a musical recital."
"As MÜSİAD, we work diligently to keep alive in the best way the values inherited from our culture"
In his speech relating to the event, MÜSİAD President Asmalı congratulated the ladies attending the program on 8 March International Women's Day and assessed: "As MÜSİAD business people, together with our sisters, we have struggled with all our might for more than 30 years for the prosperity of our country and for our bright tomorrows, and we continue our struggle."
President Asmalı continued his statement with the following words:
"MÜSİAD, which sprouted from Anatolia and spread to the four corners of the world, does not merely build bridges of trade; with its human-focused value chain it also sheds light on the world of the future. As MÜSİAD business people, together with our sisters, we have struggled with all our might for more than 30 years for the prosperity of our country and for our bright tomorrows, and we continue our struggle. Today, while we build the future of our business world with structures such as Young MÜSİAD and MÜSİAD Women, we take even greater pride in the achievements of our young people. As MÜSİAD, our goal is to contribute to the development of our young people and to the accumulated experience of our members not only with our work in economic life but also with our social and cultural activities. We are expanding our activities even further with the projects brought to life within the scope of our cooperation in different fields and the contacts we establish with various institutions and organizations. In this context, at the workshop event we held with our Ak Yuva Foundation in recent weeks, we hosted the girls under its protection at our Head Office. Today we have come together with the aim of bringing the values prepared with the contributions of our sisters to more people. As MÜSİAD, we say let it be women's day not only on 8 March but for 365 days. I say this as a member of a 32-year marriage, as the father of 3 daughters and as the owner of 2 granddaughters. In my life and in my education, my late mother mobilized herself. I can say clearly that behind every successful man there is a woman. Therefore the doors of MÜSİAD Women are wide open to our sisters. In order to encourage the participation of our female members in business life, we have also revised our membership conditions in favour of our sisters. Today, as we come together on the occasion of 8 March, I congratulate the female members of our MÜSİAD family and all our guests on International Women's Day; and I wish success in their work to all my brothers and sisters who aim to leave a far brighter future to new generations with their projections focused on social responsibility, employment and education."
"The empowerment of women comes about through their being supported in every field"
Speaking in the program, MÜSİAD Women President Meryem İlbahar, for her part, emphasized that the empowerment of women will come about through their being supported in every field and said: "We are a structure that holds the conviction that the true empowerment of women will come about through her being supported in every field." İlbahar also stated that as MÜSİAD Women they will hold an International Awareness Summit on 14 June.
MÜSİAD Women President İlbahar included the following expressions in her assessment:
"Today we are together with you on the occasion of International Women's Day. Because we are the Women's structure of MÜSİAD, today is a highly meaningful and precious day for us. As MÜSİAD Women, in the activities we carry out with the aim of creating awareness in every field where women are present, we aim to strengthen our women entrepreneurs even further. Today, with our more than 300 members within MÜSİAD, we are the business world organization that hosts the largest number of businesswomen in Türkiye, and we are aware of this strength of ours. While the empowerment of women in business life through the understanding of 'high morality and high technology', which is the founding motto of our MÜSİAD, constitutes the main axis of our work, we are also developing our projects concerning elements related to women within social and cultural life. In this context, by holding our International Awareness Summit as MÜSİAD Women on 14 June, we aim to make an important contribution to the value chain being built. We are a structure that holds the conviction that the true empowerment of women will come about through her being supported in every field. As a part of this understanding, we have come together with you today on the occasion of an exhibition and a musical recital. I would like to thank the İHH Women team, who by cooperating with us at our exhibition made it possible for us to present the handmade products of the ladies to you, for their meticulous work."
Africa House awaits its visitors at MÜSİAD with its permanent stand
Stating that the Africa House exhibition, under the auspices of Mrs. Emine Erdoğan, the esteemed wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will also be located permanently at MÜSİAD, MÜSİAD Women President İlbahar drew attention to the importance of Africa for Türkiye and said that they are happy to contribute to the Africa House project.
The Handicrafts Exhibition may be visited until 11 March
The Handicrafts Exhibition, prepared in cooperation between MÜSİAD Women and İHH Women, at which the products made with their own hands by women victims of war, mothers of orphans and volunteer women in order to provide income for many projects created for women, children and families in different geographies will be exhibited, may be visited at the MÜSİAD Head Office until 11 March.
