Akumaa Mama Zimbi
The multiple international award-winner and cultural icon, Akumaa Mama Zimbi, known as Dr Joyce Akumaa Dongotey-Padi in personal life, has been nominated once again in the category of ‘International Humanitarian of the Year’ award organized by the UK-based international organization ‘Women4Africa’.
Recently, she won the ‘Twitter with a Purpose’ award by Pisen Ghana Twitter Awards 2016. Last year, by the Ghana Social Media Rankings she was declared the 6th Most Influential Television and Radio Presenter on social media.
Ghanaian Akumaa Mama Zimbi besides being women rights leader, actress, television and radio presenter, philanthropist, relationship expert, sex educator, and marriage counselor, also hosts Ghana’s top radio and television talk show ‘Odo Ahimaso’ on love, marriage and sex.
She’s also the founder and executive director of Mama Zimbi Foundation (MZF), a non-governmental organization which is solely made on the purpose of supporting and empowering widows through its Widows Alliance Network (WANE) project, and also works for the issues of adolescents.
Through Widows Alliance Network (WANE), more than 400 widow groupings have been made in Ghana, with membership growing over 8,000 nationwide.
Mama Zimbi has also disclosed that the annual National Widows Alliance Conference (NAWAC-2016) will draw together more than 3,000 widows from all over Ghana on one platform to nurture strength and a sense of determination on Saturday, June 25, 2016, at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre, La in Accra.
According to Mama Zimbi, the conference proceeds to serve as the perfect dialogue platform for the advocacy of a comprehensive policy and legal direction for raising the standards of widows in Ghana.
The theme for NAWAC-2016 is ‘Empowering Women for the Future’ and also to celebrate the United Nations International Widows Day.
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