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VICTORIA QUAYE IS CREATING SOLUTIONS FOR AFRICA’S WATER CRISIS.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I dream of a world where everyone would have access to safe and clean water, this passion has steered my life’s work. During my early teenage years, my mother and I came up with an idea of how to filter water. When we realized it tasted good and we started receiving positive feedback from people, we decided to start selling it to our neighbors and the community. I believe that is how I fell in love with treating water. I grew up on the streets of Accra, selling water to make ends meet. I remember the satisfaction I had seeing people drink water to quench their thirst. What thrilled…
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ASMAA JAMES ON HER LIFE AS A JOURNALIST, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR , PHILANTHROPIST, WIFE & MOTHER
Asmaa James is an award-winning female radio broadcaster with over 18 years of radio broadcast experience in post conflict Sierra Leone. Her passion and interests include upholding and promoting independent media platforms, creating safe spaces for diverse voices, positions and interests with the aim of promoting an active citizenry, whilst strengthening democratic governance. Due to the numerous violations of rights, gender-based violence and inherent structural and cultural issues of representation facing women and girls she is constantly faced with in her radio programs she founded the ASMAA JAMES FOUNDATION (AJF) to promote teenage sexual reproductive health and rights, with the objective of raising awareness, mobilizing women and girls to advocate…
