Over the last week or two, I have been involved in a project to showcase inspirational women in Ghana. Here is the introduction to the project and further down my contribution!
The first International Women’s Day (IWD) was first held in 1911 and every year since women have been celebrated and the issues that affect them highlighted on the 8th of March. While IWD started as a way of highlighting what was unjust, wrong and harmful to women, today we can also celebrate how far we’ve come and recommit to the work yet to be done.
WomenWhoInspire is an online project created by a group of Ghanaian women as a contribution to the 2014 International Women’s Day theme: Inspiring Change!
WomenWhoInspire is a reminder through video, photos and words that women everywhere are powerful, beautiful and truly inspiring. Join us as we celebrate WomenWhoInspire over the next two months. Let us celebrate the social, political and economic achievements of women! Let us advocate for equality for everyone! Share your story or that of another amazing Woman who inspires!
We want to encourage women to record themselves or other women. Here are some guidelines!
Suggestion for questions for 1 min video:
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“My name is … and I hope my story inspires you”,
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I am a / the …. eg mother, student, Manager of…[they can give multiple roles]
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I use technology to / when… eg I use technology when I use to communicate with friends and to get my work done.
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Another woman who inspires me is ….
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My three words of inspiration to women are…
Upload
When you upload your video, be sure to use the hashtag #WomenhoInspire if you want us to find it and share it!
My video
Here is the video I made, of an inspiring woman in my life, my mother-in-law Grace Dolly Acquah (apologies for poor sound).
An interesting aspect is how fun it has been working together with other women, Most of the work has been done online, but today we met Away From Keyboard and it was great!
On the radio in the morning we could hear about corruption and neglect (“Where the paperwork for the sale of the USD 19,2 million vessel is, nobody seems to know”). When my ears started to get red from anger, the traffic suddenly came to a halt and the stretch of the road that normally isa 5-minute-flow became a 30-minute-obstruction. My 1,5 hour commute had now ballooned to 2hours.
