The Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM), a prominent civil society organization in Ghana, is dedicated to improving the well-being of widows and orphans. In collaboration with Plan International Ghana, WOM is embarking on a three-year project called “Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL)”. This initiative aims to empower women and amplify their voices. Below is the...
Miss Gertrude Schauber, who has since passed away, visited her daughter Almuth Schauber, who was serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. During her visit, Ms. Gertrude had the opportunity to meet Madam Betty Ayabiba, the founder of the Widows and Orphans Movement. Moved by the plight of widows in Ghana, Ms. Gertrude returned to Germany and...
WOM on the 26th of January 2024 distributed a food package worth over Fifteen Thousand Ghana Cedis to twenty (20) vulnerable widows as part of its ongoing Harmattan Food Breeze Project across seven districts in the Upper East Region. This part of the donation of GH₵ 25,995.30 received from Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. Additionally,...
The Widows and Orphans Movement (WOM) has received a donation of Twenty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Five Ghana Cedis Thirty Pesewas (GHS 25,995.30) from Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc for its Educational and Harmattan Food Breeze Programs. WOM have utilized a portion of the donation, providing financial assistance of Five Hundred Ghana Cedis (GHC 500.00)...
Gender-based violence is a common practice in the Upper East region as most of these incidences remain unreported due to societal branding on women who choose to report such occurrences as “bad women”. Most communities in the Nabdam and the Bolgatanga East Districts profess some traditions which do not uphold the right of widows, including...
“Multiple streams of income is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity” – Kelly Roach Ayamga Atampoka is a fifty-eight (58) year-old widow with six (6) dependants. She stays at Zaare in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region. Atamporka’s sole income source was from selling rice grains. According to her, this made...
“Never depend on a single income. Make investment to create a second source of income” -Warren Buffet Fifty-two-year-old Cynthia Ayoora hails from Nyariga in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region. She is widowed and has four (4) children. As a female head of her household, her main sources of income were vegetable farming...
“For women, financial independence is a matter of necessity” – Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Cecilia Atiah a forty-seven (47) year-old widow who became widowed in 2013, has six children. Two (2) boys, and four (4) girls. She hails from Zebilla in the Bawku West district of the Upper East Region and is a trader. She was a...
Georgina Atanga is a forty-nine (49) year widow from Zuarungu Dapoore in the Bolga East District of the Upper East Region. As the head of her household, she has eleven (11) dependants. Three (3) of whom are her biological children. Madam Georgina has been visually impaired for the past thirty (30) years. Two of her...
“Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you’re putting into your body” – William Katt Richmond Awintanga is fifteen (15) years old and attends the Balungu basic school. He is currently in Junior High School (JHS) two (2) and has three (3) younger sisters....
