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Our Financial Institutions Do Not Have Confidence in Women

Felicia Twumasi, CEO, Homefoods Limited, a leading Ghanaian entrepreneur, shares with Amazons Watch Magazine, in an exclusive interview, her inspiring entrepreneurship journey- from a big dream at a tabletop in a kitchen in 1995 to a high-scale ethnic food processing and packaging company, with a distribution network across The United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, North America and West Africa, and export sales increasing into multi-million dollars per annum. However, it is interesting to note that this successful businesswoman faced quite a number of challenges along this journey, other than racial and gender discrimination. Excerpt:

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Health & Wellbeing

Benefits of Childhood Immunization

By Patrick C Ezie Since the beginning of time and as long as man has existed, things have existed, which have the ability to kill man, not just from the adverse threats from harsh weather, starvation, flood, and wild animals which plagued the early man but from a unique kind of organism too small to be visualized by the human eyes, organisms which with the progress of scientific development, will become identified as microbes and the harmful categories of these microbes further identified and termed pathogens (a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease). These organisms are present all around us and have the ubiquitous nature of sometimes surviving and thriving in the air, water, soil, and even in the human body where a continuous battle ranges daily between the body defenses and these pathogens. The result of these microscopic confrontations are a change in the normal functions of…

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Impact Inspire

Salha Kaitesi: Recounting the Epic African Woman Story

Salha Kaitesi is a British Rwandan gender equality and female empowerment champion, who believes that it is the basic call of every human on earth to wipe the tears of the disadvantaged populace, by being a solution to the basic problems around the world. While working as a social worker for the North of England Refugee Service from 2006-2011, Kaitesi received an insight into the true situation of the disadvantaged and vulnerable people from different countries around the world. Several months later, the desire to play a role in impacting the lives of others eventually birthed Beauty of Rwanda, a not-for-profit Jewellery, and home décor organization that she founded in order to economically empower women and girls in Rwanda. Beauty of Rwanda’s “One Basket” campaign, which focuses on helping boost trade and end poverty for many basket weavers and local artisans (a predominant trade for disadvantaged women in Rwanda) in…

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Happenings

THE OOREDOO SCHEME GRADUATES 16 WOMEN

Under the patronage of HH Sayyida Aliya bint Thuwaini al Said, Ooredoo announced the graduation of 16 trainees from its Incubator Programme during the ‘Omani Night for My Country’ festivities. Organized in collaboration with the Omani Women’s Association in Manah, the vocational course taught women to develop essential skills in sewing and cooking. By contributing much-needed access to resources, tools, training, and funds, Ooredoo was able to empower women to start their own businesses. Raed Mohammed Dawood, director of Government Relations and Corporate Affairs at Ooredoo, said, “Omani women make up half of the workforce in the sultanate and play a vital role in the progress of our country. At Ooredoo we do our best to help women progress by enhancing their skill sets to achieve their full potential, so they can become a part of Oman’s sustainable development. “As part of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s vision on…

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Pushpa Basnet: A Diamond in Nepal

By Miracle Nwankwo Two years ago Nepal was consumed by a disastrous earthquake that claimed the lives of nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000. The earthquake caused a lot of damages that led to new beginnings for many individuals. But in a little place in Kathmandu of Nepal existed a beautiful home called the Butterfly Home, a home for peculiar kind of children whose parents have been held bound behind the four walls of Nepal prison yards. They were picked up from these prisons away from their inmate parent to this home. The owner of this home is a young Nepali social worker Pushpa Basnet founder of the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) the academic arm of the foundation. Pushpa was still an undergraduate when the burden to establish a home for the children of prisoners which she often met during her social work service to the prison yards,…

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