IHS Co-Sponsors the Rwanda Global Women's Summit

8 March 2016; Kigali, Rwanda: IHS Holding Limited (“IHS”), the largest mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, is proud to co-sponsor, through its Rwandan subsidiary IHS Rwanda Limited, Rwanda’s first Global Women’s Summit taking place today in Kigali.  

The summit’s theme is “Towards Vision 2020, Women Leading Innovative Transformation” and aims to foster collaboration on personal development, leadership, entrepreneurial solutions and motivational tools for career and business growth. The summit will form part of Rwanda’s International Women’s Day celebrations.

Over 1000 Global Women’s Summits are organised worldwide every year, however this is the first of its kind to take place in Rwanda. The Summit’s mission is to strengthen women and their families through education, empowerment and entrepreneurship in order to eradicate illiteracy, poverty and hunger in every nation.

As part of the inaugural event, five female staff members from the IHS Rwanda team will attend and participate in the day-long panels and discussions.

William Saad, IHS Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, This is a powerful initiative which we are delighted to support. At IHS we believe empowering women through mentoring, skills transfer and inspiring innovation is vital and we are pleased to help Rwanda take a leading role in furthering this aim.

The summit is being brought to Rwanda by KORA Associates, New Faces New Voices Rwanda Chapter and the IFC World Bank Group. IHS is a silver sponsor of the event along with RwandAir, AZAM, Bralirwa, Ecobank, Banque Populaire du Rwanda, Bank of Kigali, Kenya Commercial Bank, Cogebanque, Satguru Travels and Touch Media.

Through mobile infrastructure, IHS is accelerating a mobile enabled economy across sub-Saharan Africa. Over 95% of IHS’s employees are African and IHS employs close to 40,000 people directly and indirectly through its exclusive subcontractors.

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