I am very happy with this change. Because I now have my own independence. Adelaide was a seamstress until the time she got her first loan. She dyes the material and uses the same to make clothes. In fact she now employs two young women and is hoping to open a better workshop.
Women are a major vehicle of change for development in Ghana.
They just want opportunities and not to be discriminated against. Even at the lowest level, in rural areas, they want equal opportunities so that they can earn their own living. Turning a blind eye to women in development projects means reducing the country's potentials for growth by 50 percent. Without the Ghanaian women's contribution nor the family neither the economy can move. Akwesi Amperatwum lives in Techiman.