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Women4africa Awards To Honour Asantehene’s Wife In The UK

By Ten Talents
Women4africa Awards To Honour Asantehenes Wife In The UK
10.03.2016 LISTEN

HRH Lady Julia Osei Tutu, Wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, King of Ashanti is to be honoured with an International African Women’s Award at the prestigious annual Women4Africa Awards 2016. The Awards is to take place at the Oppulent Royal Kensington Town Hall in London, United Kingdom. Lady Julia will also address the gathering as the Keynote Speaker for the night.

The event, which is to be attended by the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington as well as a cross section of dignitaries from the UK and accross the globe will be covered by both local and international media. Among the previous recipients of the Women4Africa Awards are Ghana’s own Nana Oye Lithur, Minister for Gender and Chief Superintendent Naa Ashorkor Quaye, Head of the Anti Human Traficking division of the Ghana Police.

HRH Lady Julia is a qualified Lawyer who has dedicated her life to humanitarian work, supporting over 100,000 children and young people so far through her SERWAA AMPEM FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN (SAFC).

Asanteman must be truly proud to have such an acomplished and beautiful woman as first lady. Ayekoo to HRH Lady Julia!

Profile of HRH Lady Julia Osei Tutu
Lady Julia Osei Tutu, wife of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, is the Executive Director of the Serwaa Ampem Foundation for Children, (SAFC) an NGO set up in 2002 to be an advocate for vulnerable children in Ghana and to make interventions on issues affecting children in our society. For the past six she has been the pillar of the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Charity Foundation as Executive Chairman of Board of Trustees.

Lady Julia had her secondary school education at Wesley Girls' High School, Cape Coast. In 1989 she entered the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon, where she obtained a Bachelor of Law Degree, LL.B (Hons.) in 1992 and continued at the Ghana School of Law, Accra where she completed the Professional Law Course and was called to the Ghana Bar in 1994.

In September 1995 Lady Julia was admitted for postgraduate studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Humanitarian Law, after which she served as an intern with Amnesty International's United Nations Office in New York. In 1998 she joined Ecobank Ghana Limited as Legal/Corporate Affairs Officer. She was until March 2002, secretary to the National Partnership for Children's Trust, Ghana.

The scope of activities of her organizations cuts across many social issues but predominantly in the areas of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation. Combining new innovations and improvement on the existing strategies for tackling these issues, her Foundations over the past 12 years have provided support for organizations, individuals and strengthened social support structures in Ghana. These activities are not limited to only the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of her husband but cut across many regions and ethnic groups in Ghana.

Prominent among the Foundation’s activities are provision of Educational materials for schools, Scholarships for brilliant but needy students from very deprived areas, institution of an annual national awards for teachers from very deprived areas in Ghana as a way of motivating them to stay. Among some of her innovations are the establishment of ‘Orphanage on Wheels’ – which support Children Infected and Affected with HIV, to help reduce or remove stigmatization associated with service provision for this vulnerable population.

The Otumfuo Mobile Learning and Mobile Dental Project is committed to ensuring that deprived children in rural communities have access to computers to train in ICT; as well as providing Dental care in their own communities. These three programmes have supported over 100,000 children so far over the past 5 years.

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