ENDING CYCLICAL POVERTY AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN AGOGO, GHANA
My friend, Fausty, was only 19 when she died, leaving behind her two-year-old daughter. She had been traveling through Libya to Europe, in search of better economic opportunities. During the journey, she was captured and killed by militants of the Libyan slave trade, her organs harvested and sold on the black market.
Fausty's tragic story was only one of many others. In Ghana, teen mothers do not have much access to jobs. As a result, many have to resort to prostitution, street hawking, or violence to survive. Others, like Fausty, try to leave for Europe, only to face perilous fates.
ABOUT NKYIRIMMA NTI
Nkyirimma Nti (translation: for generations unborn), aims to create a vocational training center where young mothers can receive skill training, mentorship, and earn a living for themselves and their children.
SKILL TRAINING
Participants will acquire skills in making clothing, jewelry and hairstyling. They will also have access to monthly computer literacy, financial and sexual health workshops.
JOB PLACEMENT
After two years of training, participants will be placed into fashion house jobs, to continue working in crafts and fashion design. Participants can also choose to stay and continue working with the project.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Founder and CEO
Sandra Ohemeng is a Ghanaian and an Economics major at Wellesley College. She is a Future Global Leaders Fellow (FGL fellows are the world’s top first-generation university students and are primed for induction into the Fortis Society), a fellow at the Albright Institute (designed to inspire the new generation of global leaders), a Yale Young African Scholar, and a Mastercard Foundation Scholar.
In the past, she has worked as an Economic Research Intern at JMK Consulting LLC-Ghana and as a Marketing Intern at MTN-Liberia. This summer, Sandra will be working as an Associate Product Marketing Manager at Google headquarters. Sandra has a strong interest in marketing and is very passionate about women empowerment.
Communications Director
Samantha Lai is a Political Science major at Wellesley College and Marketing Chair of Wellesley College WeStart.
