yes i am changemaker, i seek to see lives,communities and continents change.SUpporting the lives of vulnerable groups and generating a paradigm shift in situations gives me pleasure.
When i am in the community with fellow young people interacting or building their capacity. Even the sharing and learning process gives me joy.
To see the capacity of every young girl or woman buit and seeing hem able to make positive choices about their Sexual and reporductive health.
Experience over the last ten years has been in relation to work in the field of Sexual Reproductive health,maternal health, youth sexuality issues among others. This experience was gained from the International Planned parenthood Federation and it’s member Association the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana. This begun when I became a youth counselor in a DFID funded young and wise project. This offered me the opportunity to become the national co-ordinator of the Youth Action movement, the youth volunteer wing of PPAG and a youth on the organization’s board the highest decision making body of the organization. This offered me an opportunity to initiate advocate activities for the youth wing and promote the vision of PPAG through decision taken at the board.
In 2005 I was elected the African regional youth representative for the IPPF Africa region representing young people at the African regional executive committee of IPPF and the Global governing council of IPPF. This offered me an opportunity to be part of a team that organized advocacy programmes at EU/ACP meeting to advocate for more funding for Sexual Reproductive health, maternal health and other health issues. Research has been a mainstay in all the projects I implemented in the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana. My school research for the masters was the Educational effects of Sexual Reproductive health education on the youth, a case study of Ashiedu-Keteke area.Paydp’s project are also proceeded by baselines and research to enable us undertake evidence based projects. All projects are monitored and evaluated. These all led to the formation of PAYDP the youth and women’s organization I head now.
