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29.10.2011 General News

Women to take up leadership roles

By GNA
Women to take up leadership roles
29.10.2011 LISTEN

Tema, Oct.29, GNA- Mrs. Susan Adu- Amankwah, First Vice Chairperson of the Convention Peoples' Party (CPP), has encouraged women in the country to upgrade themselves in order to take up leadership roles.

She said this would help them to be involved in decision-making. especially on issues concerning women because their decisions would affect other women in the country.

Mrs. Adu-Amankwah made these remarks during Annual Week Celebration of the Petroleum Ladies Association (PELA) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, in Tema.

She pointed out that women empowerment should not be seen only in the political arena, but also in the business field, and suggested that this the journey to the top could begin in second cycle institutions where girls were given certain positions.

The CPP Vice Chairperson advised women to be confident when taking affirmative action, adding, when women were well equipped, they could take good decisions affecting their children.

She was disappointed that women in most institutions were seen as subordinates, and urged women to disabuse their minds of being inferior to men.

The week-long celebration which ended on Friday, had”Empowering Women in Leadership Role in the Oil and Gas Industry” as its theme.

It was attended by other Ladies' Associations from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), SNNIT, and Ghana Textile Printing (GTP), among others.

As part of the celebration, there was a Lecture on Health where Oheneba Barima Ntim and Mrs Joyce Aryee, the main speakers, urged the participants to endeavour to make God the centre of whatever they did.

Mame Yaa Adusei, President of PELA, donated an amount of 2,500 Ghana Cedis to Master Manasseh Thompson, a four- year- old hole-in-heart patient at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital towards his operation, and said the gesture was in fulfillment of the Association's corporate social responsibility to make generous donations to institutions and individuals.

She said last year the Association made a donation to the Maternity Ward of the Tema General Hospital.

GNA

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