This write up Chronicles the life of the current second-lady of Ghana, Her excellency, Samira Bawumia.
Samira began her early education at the Answarudeen Islamic School at Fadama and Alsyd Academy in Accra, before continuing to the Akosombo International School (AIS) and then to Mfantsiman Girls’ Secondary School at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana.
Following her admission to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology (KNUST), she studied BA. Social Science in Law and Sociology and Technology.
At the Ghana Institute Of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), where she had her postgraduate studies, she was awarded the Best Student in Master of Business Administration (MBA).
She is a, multi-lingua fluent in Ewe, Ga, Twi, Fante and Mamprusi
Samira is the founder and CEO of the Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP), described as a not-for-profit organisation established with the purpose of empowering the underprivileged in Ghana through diverse social intervention projects to improve lives.
In November 2019, she donated library books to police Basic Schools in the country to inculcate the habit of reading in children.
This was an initiative of her ‘Library in the box’ project which has the objective of making books available to schools. She also started the Samira Bawumia literature prize.The annual literacy prize for young Ghanaians between the ages of 15 and 25 is aimed at providing young creative and writers with an opportunity to share their art with the world.
The first winners of the Samira Bawumia Literature Prize were crowned at the Fitzgerald in Accra on Monday, July 27, 2020.
In May 2022, Samira received the Ghanaian Women Association of Georgia Global Humanitarian Award for her interventions in maternal and child health, women empowerment and education in the USA.
She also received an honor from the Atlanta City Council and also recognized by the Macon-Bibb County.
Source: By Tvz
Content created and supplied by: Primetime (via Opera
News )