Grantee Highlight: Sixty-Nine Women Graduate from NEWIG’s Youth-in-Entrepreneurship Initiative

This story was originally posted on Graphic Online (Ghana) Sixty-nine young women have graduated from a three-month intensive training in vocational skills under the Youth-in-Entrepreneurship initiative. The initiative, which forms part of the Network of Women in Growth-Ghana’s (NEWIG) project, seeks to empower young women to be gainfully employed to make them self-reliant. They were trained […]

Op-Ed : Ghana’s frustrated youth are vulnerable to the radical call of ISIS

Students at University of Ghana (AP Photo/Gabriela Barnuevo) Read published article here: on Qz.com BY Amba Mpoke-Bigg Over the past couple of decades Ghana has won a hardearned reputation as a stable and settled democracy. Yet, as news broke last week that a young university graduate from Ghana had left home to join Islamic State […]