The Exquisite Lady of the Year Awards has been consistently celebrating women of excellence in different fields since 2009. At our 10thELOYawards in 2018, we launched the ELOYAwardsFoundation with the primary aim to empower women through partnerships for access to grants and affordable finance, entrepreneurial training, mentoring and networking for sustainable empowerment.
The ELOYAwards Foundation is about empowering and challenging thousands of women to be more and do more by providing access to resources, business skills and tools for them to be able to grow, transform and sustain their businesses, which will, in turn, benefit their families and the community at large.
Our watchword is SUSTAINABLE EMPOWERMENT.
We are holding the 1st annual ELOY conference under the ELOYawards Foundation on the 13th of November. This event is free to all women to attend, but you must register. The ELOY conference is being used as a platform to educate and empower thousands of women.
One woman will win a 1 million Naira Funding for their business,
50 women will also be chosen to be part of the ELOYAwards Foundation Sustainable Empowerment Program (SEP). This gives them Six months access to mentors, training and affordable finance.
It’s the 11th of the Exquisite Ladies of the Year (ELOY) Award. The ELOYs will be held on the 24thof November 2019. We have 25 awards to give out to exceptional women this year. We are looking forward to celebrating all women. Our theme this year is I am Empowered. We believe empowered women empower others, all the categories this year show that women empowering themselves with knowledge and skills have been able to move past the norm to become exceptional. We want to highlight and celebrate this.
The time is now to send in your nominations across a range of categories to be scrutinised by our judges. Nominations for ELOYAwards category ends on the 25th of September 2019. Nominations for the Ladies Who Inspire category ends on the 2nd of November 2019. Entries should be submitted to eloy@exquisitemag.com.
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These sets of Awards are for exquisite ladies in different fields who will be nominated and voted for by you. We are looking for nominations in the categories above who have been active during the ELOY period of Dec 2018 till date, they will then be shortlisted and the final categories and nominees announced by end of September for ELOYAwards and November for the Ladies that Inspire Awards.
Criteria for Nominee
The criteria for the ELOYAward focus on the character of the individual, her ability and achievements and how her work impacts the Nigerian society.
Must have proven record of:
1. Direct leadership: responsible for duties of others in a business environment. The leadership ability to affect human behaviour and accomplish a mission. Must be capable of influencing people to achieve set goals.
2. Indirect leadership: she has earned respect of others due to past or current achievements
3. Service: has helped colleague, associates to grow, develop and achieve goals and given assistance to the community.
4. Commitment: shows a level of dedication to her goals and ability to achieve them
5. Achievement: shows evidence of growth in her business or profession.
6. Integrity: must act according to values, beliefs and principles that shape the future for the better. Actions of integrity.
7. Character: meeting her responsibilities and being a good Nigerian.
The aim for ELOYAwards as always is to continue to inspire, motivate and empower women, celebrate our successes and show that it can be done. Our distinguished judges were carefully selected and they embody ladies who are doing exceptionally well in their chosen fields and are great examples of strong women doing great things. We want other women to be inspired by these women and strive to be the best they can be.
This year, our theme is “I am Empowered”. We want to know any woman in any community, workplace, field or anywhere that is doing great work, we want to celebrate those women.Tewa Onasanya, founder of The ELOYAwards and Foundation announced on Friday 27th of August thatELOY is now accepting entries for its 11th edition.
