Venkat Raman
Auckland, September 26, 2022
EmpowHER, an Auckland-based young association of professional women scored another high last fortnight, with an interactive session on financial literacy, discipline, challenges, and problems that women encounter in their vocational and domestic lives.
Massey University Financial Education & Research Centre Director and popular community worker Dr Pushpa Bhardwaj Wood was the main speaker at the event held on September 3, 2022.
It was a Forum held under the theme, ‘Moneywise- Steps to Financial Wisdom.’
Achieving financial goals
Dr Wood and other speakers spoke on a wide range of topics including how to plan, save and protect wealth and future finances, setting up ‘SMART’ goals, assessing risk tolerance levels, instilling savings habits in children, financial considerations when buying properties, as well as ensuring the power of attorney and wills.
Among the other speakers at the event were Qualified Mortgage Adviser and Relationship Manager at The Mortgage Supply Co Ltd Rani Nalam, and Avondale Law Barrister and Solicitor Sakthi Krishnamurthi.
Devika Ganjoor-Erickson, one of the founders of the Association, said that as a part of the Forum, EmpowHER sponsored three women to attend the online ‘Money Smarts’ financial well-being course run by Massey University.
“More than seventy women who attended the Forum said that it was highly beneficial. According to an attendee, ‘her three key takeaways included Diversification, Delayed Gratification and Disaster Planning.’ We are pleased that the event was useful,” she said.
About EmpowHER
Established about a year ago, EmpowHER aims to unite and empower women from diverse ethnic communities through educational and well-being forums to learn, grow and broaden their mindset through encouragement and self-awareness that will benefit their mental wellbeing. Details of meetings are posted on Facebook and other social media channels.
“Team EmpowHER would like to thank everyone who has supported them over the last year and the team looks forward to bringing more topics that will empower women to be the best versions of themselves,” founders Rani Nalam, Devika Erickson, Neelu Taore, Sakthi Krishnamurthi, Shveta Shah and Dr Ratneesh Suri said.
EmpowHER was a recipient of a Community Award for Services to Women and their empowerment in Auckland at the Eighth Annual Indian Newslink Sports, Community, Arts and Culture Awards held on June 20, 2022.
With Reporting by EmpowHER
