News Release
August 11, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WPEC Launches ‘Titans Tank’ to reward the best African and African American female entrepreneurs

Washington, DC and LAGOS, Nigeria, August 11, 2020, -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Women’s Program Engagement Council (WPEC) aka “Africa’s Titans®”, is a Global Sustainable Partnerships (GSP) Global Initiative designed to help African and African American women entrepreneurs and business owners expand into new markets, today launches a new initiative christened ‘Titans Tank.’

Titans Tank will entail a virtual business competition to allow women entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas and existing business to the public and the WPEC community. The top five businesses will be selected to participate in the final. These women will get the rare opportunity to showcase their ideas, products, or services to judges and potential investors. To apply, please click on LINK

According to Kimberly L. Fogg the Founder and Chair of (WPEC), the goal of WPEC is to work with investors to help them look at women entrepreneurs through a “new lens” as it relates to the value of investing in women and to ensure their voices are represented, recognized and championed for their role as innovators, job creators, entrepreneurs, mentors while helping raise awareness that these women have longevity in the local, national and global markets.

Kimberly noted that the campaign will invite African and African American women entrepreneurs and business owners globally to send in a short video of their idea or existing business. “We will showcase this on all our social media platforms including @TWPEC Facebook page and LinkedIn in the week of August 17th. The judges will select the top five “Titans” and the winner will be announced on Sept 26th, 2020.”

In keeping with the theme of Africa’s Titans® the competition will focus on two categories.
• Titans in Innovation, Technology, and Communication Connectivity
• Titans in Banking, Business, Investments, and Marketing

WPEC is looking to partner with key female representatives of major Fortune 500 companies, African leaders, company founders, philanthropists, key policymakers and business leaders to serve as mentors to share their journeys through the private and public sector spaces describing not only their successes but also identifying policy gaps, challenges, obstacles and suggested solutions for future best practices.

Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of WPEC

About WPEC

WPEC is an innovative social entrepreneurship organization comprised of a global network of women leaders who play a pivotal role in the global support of getting more women in managerial/executive positions and on corporate boards, with a mission of developing, growing, and sustaining women leaders in their own businesses globally. WPEC operates globally through building a committed global black woman led Africa’s Titans® network of entrepreneurs and business owners who are utilizing innovation to drive global sustainable development, addressing existing socio-economic gaps, and integrating social impact in the continent of Africa and the Diaspora through allocating a percentage of their funding to GSP as their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) partner. WPEC works with investors to help them understand the shift in the paradigm of development and facilitate local/foreign direct investments through a “new lens” as it relates to the value of investing in women/women-owned businesses who have longevity in the local, national and global markets.

Media Contacts

For the United States:
Kimberly L. Fogg
Founder GSP and WPEC
kfogg@gspartnerships.org
(404) 909-2428

For Africa:
African Media Agency
contact@africanmediaagency.com

An estimated 80% of the population does not have access to clean and safe drinking water. The total impact of funding safe water projects is exponential, especially when considering the health, education, economic, and social benefits afforded to children and members of their families. The expected impact in the communities has been identified as the following:

• Increased school attendance as a result of less illness.
• Increased adult working days as a result of fewer children becoming ill through the use of the Hydraid® BioSand Filter (400 days will be gained from adults staying in work because kids are healthy).
• 50,000 hours of time estimated by children and their family members saved by not having to find firewood to burn in order to boil their water.
• Empowering women to take control of their family’s overall health.
• Increase in productivity, as less time will be spent in collecting drinking water and more time to increase their income (WHO estimates that for every dollar invested in improved drinking water and sanitation, the economic benefits can range from $4-$34).
• Increased understanding within the community of issues related to gender equity.
• Greater sustainability through training.
• Health clinics will have access to clean and safe drinking water for staff and patients.
• Health clinic professionals will have access to clean water to wash hands, wash instruments, and disperse medicine with clean drinking water.

After 8 years of testing, training, working in schools and communities to see what works, and then taking proactive steps to improve conditions in Tanzania, GSP has developed and fostered a wide range of long-term partnerships from “grassroots” to “global.” This collaboration has led to the development of “Smart Villages,” using modern innovative technology and developing infrastructure that provides a pre-packaged bundle of services (e.g. clean water, energy, and telecommunications), that delivers each of these components to the community, which are vital for a more livable and sustainable future — making a significant difference in the lives of people (especially women and girls), ” said Kimberly Fogg, GSP Founder and CEO.

Drum roll: We have great news to share! Our Meru School District received 1st and 2nd prize for the Sanitation and Environmental Health Competition — 2 years in a row. We also received the official “blessing” from the new regime in Tanzania to expand our efforts. They were informed about our ongoing efforts in the schools and health dispensaries and pleased that our clean water initiatives contributed to the District receiving 1st and 2nd prize for the Sanitation and Environmental Health Competition.

Message from the District Medical Officer: “Our Meru school district was awarded certificates, car and bikes for winning the competition in 2018 for Sanitation and Environmental Health Competition. They are various factors contributed to their winning among is GSP initiatives of providing water filters/ access to clean and safe water and teaching health, hygiene and sanitation practices in schools and health facilities. “

GSP’s sister-school initiative has built another unique learning opportunities for Tanzania and US students to create a deeper understanding of the problems of the lack of clean and safe drinking water worldwide, impart with students — “the power of one” — each and every person can make a difference in the lives of people who are less fortunate in the world and to create the next generation of “global citizens.”