FICCI FLO Women Achievers Awards and Walk for a Cause by 44 Members of FLO, Hyderabad

FICCI FLO Hyderabad is putting up together another great show tonight in City. The event is to celebrate womanhood. As part of this, it is organizing FICCI FLO Women Achievers Awards Night as Walk for a cause, where 44 FLO members will walk the ramp in aid of FLO's CSR initiatives- Educating the Girl Child, Women Empowerment and Breast Cancer Awareness etc.

This is our flagship and blockbuster event, a fundraiser with reverence and entertainment The show is an amalgamation of women achievers being honoured. Our members walking the ramp for the great cause of women empowerment initiatives is highly remarkable, said Rekha Lahoti, Chairperson of FLO Hyderabad.

Archana Garodia, Gupta, National President of FLO will grace the evening as the Guest of Honour.

Twelve women achievers from various walks of live will be recognized and felicitated with awards. These women achievers include—-1) Excellence in Education - Begum Anees - Nasr School.; 2) Excellence in Healthcare - Dr. Manjula Anagani—IVF; 3) Excellence in Sports - PV Sindhu; 4) Philanthropy - Begum Bilquees Latif.; 5) Innovation Through Technology - Anu Acharya.; 6) Corporate Leadership - Mahima Datla; 7) Performing Artist - Dancer - Deepika Reddy; 8) Adventure & Endurance - Uma Chigurupati; 9) Excellence in Media * Uma Sudhir.; 10) Excellence in Interior Designing - Hameeda Sharma; 11) Fashion Designer - Anushree Reddy and 12) Jewellery Designer - Suhani Pittie.

Theme of the show is Shakti, kept in line with the vision for the year 'synergy'. Our members are excited about it. They have been rehearsing for the past several days, informed Rekha Lahoti. Designers Neeta Lulla, Nikhil Thampi, Shruti Sancheti and Divya Reddy have come out with excellent designs for the show. These forty four wonderful women will showcase their designs. The show will be Choreographed by Meher and Imran and it will be hosted by Anuj Gurwara.

We have invited the slew of celebrities to be the showstoppers for the event. Regina Cassandra will walk the ramp for Nikhil Thampi, Saina Nahwal for Shruti Sancheti, Raashi Khanna for Divya Reddy and Lakshmi Manchu for Neeta Lulla. They will also take to the ramp. These five stunningly beautiful showstoppers will add to the excitement of the evening, Rekha informed. The show will go for 90minutes and will have four sequences

My vision for this year is "Building Synergy". Synergy to me is an underlined thread that holds everything together. If there is synergy of ideas, minds and actions we could achieve a lot more than what we could do individually. I would like the Synergy to be developed not Just within the chapter but outside of it too said Rekha.

It is also the occasion for us to celebrate various women empowerment initiative we at FLO Hyderabad have embarked upon. Some of these include: Training 6th to 10,h class students in English, Women in Transport- to train around 200 women in Hyderabad in driving skills and Swayam- a support cell to help women entrepreneurs set up Startup Businesses, and help its members to convert their ideas into professional businesses, said Rekha Lahoti.

We expect 600 whose-who of the city to grace the evening said Rekha. Many FLO members from Delhi Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Luihiana and other places are expected to take part in the event.