The Ghana Diaspora Women which focuses on educating women to discover themselves and pushing women to stand up to their rightful place in society has been inaugurated in Accra on Saturday 15th February, 2020 at the Labadi Beach Hotel under the theme “The Role of Diaspora Women in National Development”.
The founder Mrs. Marie Amoakwa-Boadu who is a UK expatriate said the organisation was birth in the United Kingdom about five months ago.
Mrs. Marie Amoakwa-Boadu a teacher in the United Kingdom noted that she took up the challenge from the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s answer to a question about the Ghanaian women when he was in Canada.
“It can be recalled that some months ago the president was in Canada, and was asked why few women in Ghanaian political leadership, and in his answer he made it known that the women population in Ghana was 52 percent”. Mrs. Marie Amoakwa-Boadu stated.
In attendance at the ceremony was the Deputy Minister of Gender and Children Affairs Hon. Freda Prempeh, Member of Parliament for Hohoe Constituency Hon. Bernice Heloo, Palgrave Boakye-Danquah founder of Kandifo Institute, Michelle McKinney Hammond an international speaker and Life Coach, Emefa Gadze an Executive life coach and founder of Single Parents Support Network, Emmanuel Quayson Chairman of Ghana Union UK, Ama Duncan founder of the Fabulous Woman Network and Esther Tawia founder and Executive Director for Gender Center for Empowering Development.
Already the international organisation has five branches across the world including Ghana, U.K, Italy, Canada and the United States.
Credit: Nii Okpoti Odamttem
