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22.10.2014 General News

Evergreen Women Initiative Launched In Ghana

By Emelia Aryee
Evergreen Women Initiative Launched In Ghana
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Evergreen Women Initiative (EgWI), a non-governmental organization aimed at liberating girl/women from illiteracy and poverty, helping them to achieve their social, cultural and economic right in the society has been birthed last week in Accra.

The initiative seeks to champion the cause of improving the woman and the girl child standard of living in order to achieve economic self-reliance and an expected productive health.

The initiative will also resort to advocacy and empowerment to improve the financial status of the women and girls by equipping them with independent skills.

This was disclosed by the Coordinator of the Evergreen Women Initiative, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Grace Ojelabi, at the launch of the initiative in Accra last Sunday, October 19.

The launch, which was held on the theme: “African Beauty”, was used to create public awareness of the existence of the groups and also to raise funds for the activities of the organization.

It brought together players in the civil society sector, NGO, and other business sectors. They included Mrs. Angela Dwamena Aboagye, Executive Director of the Ark Foundation.

According to Mrs. Ojelabi, the initiative seeks to stir up and partner with individuals, businesses, local institutions and international bodies to reach out to women and girls especially those in rural areas to achieve the initiative's fundamental goal of liberating them from poverty and poor standard of living.

Mrs. Ojelabi disclosed that the initiative would offer trade and training opportunities for young girls and woman on craft and dress making, animal rearing and others to empower the rural folk. This, she said, will be done under the initiative's Rural Girl-Child/Women Empowerment project.

She said the organization will also offer health checks to the target group through demographic health survey on status of women.

The EgWI will also serve as a data base to disseminate information on violence against women.

The EgWI Coordinator called on all and sundry to come on board in making the dreams of the initiative a reality.

Mrs. Angela Dwamena Aboagye, Executive Director of the Ark Foundation who was also Guest Speaker for the occasion reiterated that there are giants in the society which needs to be dealt with head-on.

She said the giants included poverty, illiteracy, lack of attention to the needs of women and girl child, domestic violence, and all forms of abuse against women and girls.

The Ark Foundation Executive Director said there was therefore a cause for the formation of the Evergreen Women Initiative, which was a laudable one in achieving socio-economic freedom for women and girls who are manly ostracized in the society.

Mrs. Aboagye stressed that empowerment is very important in every human's life and that it starts from the “core of the inside”.

She pledged the availability of her organization, the Ark Foundation to offer empowerment and legal support to the Evergreen Women Initiative.

The chief executive officer (CEO) of Panafield, Mr. Akilagbe, was represented by Mr. Hillary Babajide as the chairman of the launch.

He donated a total sum of GH₵1,200 to the cause of the initiative and also pledged his company would offer research support to the Evergreen Women Initiative.

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