Declaration for Women Leadarship in Americas Region
The Women Leadership Summit which took place in Caracas, Venezuela, had its closing on June 20th. After a week of discussions, sharing ideas and receiving several information on networking, communication strategies, the outcome of the summit was the Declaration of the International women Leadership Summit in Paralympic Sport of the Americas Region
During the closing ceremony, the President of NPC Venezuela, Ahiquel Hernandez, read the whole declaration and expressed her happiness in hosting such event. She said: “ I am happy that we had such opportunity to share ideas and create this declaration. Our NPC is mainly run by women and we want to inspire other women to become leaders as well.”
Andrew Parsons, APC President, emphasized the importance of information and communication between all countries from Americas Region, as well as with APC and IPC. He said: “I believe it was an important moment for the history of APC. For the first time we gather to discuss about an specific topic and leave this summit with a planning, an action plan”. Andrew Parsons took the opportunity to create the first work group of Women in Sport from the Americas Region and invited Ahiquel to head the group.
After the speeches, each participant received a certificate of attendance and to close the event, a little show of the Venezuelan Culture with music was presented to the spectators.