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The Right Connections
Forbes Woman Africa
|October/November 2017
Lilian Ajayi-Ore is creating an environment where students play a role in generating solutions for gender equality.
THE WORLD NEEDS A LOT OF help,” sighs Lilian Ajayi-Ore at the other end of the line in New York the Friday evening we speak to her from Johannesburg.
“If we are being completely candid, we have to sacrifice personal moments to do some of the things we all want to,” says Ajayi-Ore, founder of the Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W), a recipient of the Best of Manhattan Charity award for three years.
As she speaks, you can hear Ajayi-Ore’s year-old son Alexander Emmanuel in the background.
“As a mom, you never get an off day,” she laughs. “But he is the youngest of all the people I support.”
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