International Women’s Day Celebration

About 60 men and women gathered in the Downtown Courtyard Marriot Hotel in Toronto on March 21, 2015 to celebrate International Women’s Day.  It was the 9th Annual International Women’s Day event hosted by WFWP-Toronto.   With the topic: Young Women and Leadership: Education, Opportunities and Obstacles, the speakers covered topics based on being a women and the obstacles they had to face to reach where they were today.  In addition to the main speakers, the Honorable Jean Augustine, former MP, gave her congratulations to the event, an Author, Marnie Kay, spoke on the power of believing in yourself, and poetess Nakita Portelance shared a moving poem entitled “Time”