Oreoluwa Lesi

Oreoluwa Lesi

Oreoluwa Somolu Lesi is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and UK-trained economist and information technology expert. She is the founder and executive director of Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), a non-profit organisation that empowers women and girls socially and economically through education in Information technology.

Quotes

• Gone are the days where girls are relegated to doing domestic chores, leaving boys to go to school and have a career.
  • Speaking at International Day of the Girl-child (11 October 2017)

• It is best at this age for parents, guardians and teachers to give the girls the opportunity to be the best, have confidence in themselves and basically dream as widely as they can.
  • Implement Child Rights Act, WTEC tells govt (2017)

• Revalidating the role of women in technology is not meant to compete with the men, it shouldn’t be like that because we all have our area of strengths and perspective. We are bringing different levels of exposure to the team or workplace.
  • Technology is a Gender Balanced Profession’, WTECH’s Founder, Oreoluwa Lesi