PHOTOS: Butterfly Effect empowers orphaned girls in Accra

Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Butterfly Effect, a not for profit organisation headed by Auguster Obaa Yaa Boateng has empowered more than 60 orphaned girls in Accra at an event dubbed ‘Empowering the Orphaned girls.’

Inmates of three (3) orphanages who came together at the Chosen Children Center at Darkuman in Accra on 14^th October, 2017, benefited from general grooming of the female and also how to make liquid soap.

A speaker at the event, Nana Kwesi Coomson, Editor-in-Chief of leading online news portal www.233times.net told the beneficiaries to do exploits and not to put ceilings to their dreams, using the story of Ali Bongo, the current President of Gabon who grew up in an orphanage as a case study.

Doris Darkwah, a motivational Speaker also spoke to the beneficiaries of the event using influential women like Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Naadu Mills, amongst others as role models

Speaking to Miss Boateng, the CEO of Butterfly Effect, she mentioned that empowering orphaned girls has been a deep concern for her. According to her, this will be the beginning of more projects to empower the orphaned girls. She mentioned that there are other events underway to help groom the orphaned girls to help them realize their potentials

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Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net) @nkcoomson on Twitter

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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