Mama Zimbi Wins Noble Women Award

Ace actress, broadcaster and multiple international award winner Akumaa Mama Zimbi, real name Joyce Akumaa Dongotey-Padi, has added another laurel to the numerous she has received in the past few years. The cultural icon, who is gradually stepping into other parts of Africa, has received the “Noble Women Award-2014″ for her leadership in the media in Ghana and the empowerment of women and girls through her Mama Zimbi Foundation (MZF). This award was given to her by the Noble Care Foundation.

Mama Zimbi received this prestigious award alongside prominent women like Her Excellency Dr. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (former first lady of the Republic of Ghana), Ama K. Abebrese (Actress), Sherifa Gunu (Musician), Akosua Agyapong (Musician) and a few others.

Upon receiving the award, Mama Zimbi took the opportunity to disclose that the Widows Alliance Network (WANE) project for sustainable economic development of widows in Ghana, which is one of the projects undertaken by the Mama Zimbi Foundation (MZF), will hold its 6th National Widows Alliance Conference (NAWAC-2014) on Saturday, June 21st, 2014 at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre, La with the theme “Empowering women through education”. This conference is also to celebrate the United Nations International Widows Day.

Through WANE, over 400 widow groupings have been formed in Ghana, with membership swelling to over 8,000 nationwide. The annual national Widows Alliance Conference for advocacy and national widows cohesion is organized on a large scale as the grand occasion where all of Ghana and Africa are made to appreciate the roles widows are playing as ambassadors of change in their communities.

It also serves as the ideal dialogue platform for the advocacy of a comprehensive policy and legal direction for elevating the standards of widows in Ghana.