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Meet this Social Entrepreneur who is dedicated to empowering Women through Fashion


"I made some of my favorite dresses in school with needle and thread; although time consuming but worth it.” Fashion Designer, Ayobami Helen Oladapo

Ayobami Helen Oladapo is a social entrepreneur dedicated to improve the lives of women and girls by empowering them and creating opportunities that take them out of poverty and advance their economic status. She has a degree in Banking and Finance from Afe Babalola University. She is the CEO of Statement by Bami; a fashion house creating different creative clothing options ranging from texture play to color play to pattern in a mix of art promoting classy and elegance. She derived her passion for fashion as an adolescent who is stylish and love classy dresses. She started using needle and thread to adjust some of her badly made dresses in school. “I made some of my favorite dresses in school with needle and thread; although time consuming but worth it.” She says in recent conversation.





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During her NYSC in 2016, she severed in one of the out-skirt communities in Port Harcourt in Nigeria where she trained over 50 young women on how to cut and sow. “I do not like the living condition of young women in the community, adolescents girls drop out of school because of unwanted pregnancies and become poor, young women do so many undignified work to feed themselves and their kids and how poverty oppress women. I wanted to create opportunities for them to bring them out of poverty and fashion is all that I know.” This was easier to do because I talked to the NYSC coordinator about providing machines and a space for these women to learn tailoring. I remember these women sold dresses and blouses they made to corpers in the village. I was fulfilled for that short period of time.

                                               
She is a co-founder and creative director of PLATTER; a platform to build a community that serves people interested in fashion and style either as a producer or consumer. Platter is a way to serve marginalized population especially women and girls, It is an opportunity for women and girls to take dignified job roles, increase their financial status and bring them out of poverty by making ready to wear outfits focusing on style, quality and affordability that can be worn every day of the week.  She believes the world has to tap into the potentials of women and girls to have a sustainable economic.

                                            

Her quarterly meet up called Fashion and Love, teaches and encourage women about self-love through styling and look. She said every woman is beautiful and that they could sometimes see this when they wear good fitting outfits. She said dressing has a positive way to accept ourselves as gorgeous and care for ourselves in days when make us feel less, seeing our images sometimes can serve as our transcendent meditation to continue to live in days in adversity. She believes fashion can do a lot of positive change in the world than just a way to rack profit.

                                              

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