Sheikha Hessa Al Sabah hails Sheikha Moza\'s support for Qatari business women

HE Chairperson of the Arab Businesswomen's Council, Sheikha Hessa bint Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, hailed, at the Arab Economic Forum that kicked off Wednesday under the patronage of HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani at the Four Seasons Hotel, the role played by HH Sheikha Moza bin Nasser in supporting Qatari business women believing in their pivotal role in community development. In an inaugural speech before the Arab Economic Forum held today themed exploring investment opportunities in Qatar, she said the faith of HH Sheikha Moza in the inter-relation between women education and community development inspired her to exert tireless efforts to empower Arab and Qatari women to play their role in business and trade. Arab women are not less innovative and powerful than their peers in other communities; however they need a chance to gain their religion-stated rights instead of hindering them with customs and traditions. HE demanded empowering women to prove their existence and not to underestimate their potentials. Effective participation of women requires developing their capacities and potentials to possess strength attributes of knowledge, self- confidence, group work and openness to the outer world; all of which could enable them to make an effective change in their societies. The Arab Businesswomen's Council has been working on empowering women economically, the top goal of the council's agenda,  Al Sabah pointed out. She called for directing more attention to the support of women economic role via qualifying and training them socially and professionally in order to assume remarkable positions in the society. She stressed as well on the necessity of finding a proper mechanism for fair distribution of job opportunities, a process that needs both legal principles and procedural structures that would secure women rights as well as the role of community organizations responsible for defending them. She further confirmed that improving women potentials through education and training will surely boost their abilities to face life challenges