When Nana Owusua Boamah of SiGNATURE KITCHENS GH asked me to apply for the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, I thought it was one of those applications. :) As an entrepreneur, one would usually fill a number of applications for all sorts of things; some end nowhere but we keep pushing. 😃 I am very certain that the application for Out of Eden Gh was one of the last the AWEC team received; close to midnight on the last day.

. The ripple effects of your 'one action' will bless many. One highlight for me has been the fact that there are various businesses across Africa, solving local problems while thinking globally; and it's inspiring on the fronts of all sectors of our nations.

'Ayekoo' to all entrepreneurs, especially the African ladies making a difference all around the world. Keep walking 👏 ... Keep making meaningful impact. There's enough room in the sky for each of us to shine; so - brighten the corner where you are! "We face neither East nor West; we face forward”― Kwame Nkrumah

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4th April 2023, @ SharedSpace, Tema

Today is Tuesday April 4th and God has been good. I just want to write about wanting to do something and not being able to do it at the time you wish you could. It happens a lot with parents especially, and I pray that as we end Lent 2023 this week, God will grant me peace with respect to what I am able to accomplish each day. Sometimes I feel I could be a bit more productive, but what do you do when your 3-year old is crying and refusing to bath, and the whole venture of finally bathing and getting dressed takes about an hour when you had estimated 15 minutes? To us, that's a 'whole 45 minutes lost/wasted'....but God is in the details. Always. Timing belongs to Him. 

I sometimes feel there's so much to share on the blog and I don't even have the time in this season of my life to write as I would want to. Jesus had to wait for His time....and we need to view time and its use as God views it. God has the bigger picture and if He deems it fit that we should be doing something that we think is not 'productive' or 'impactful' per our limited view and judgements, then may He have His way.

Jesus didn't do anything before its time. Actually, after we heard about Him when He was 12 years old, it looked as if He had been put into hibernation mode till His public ministry started at age 30. 

Lord, help me wait for Your time....and for Your opportunities....and for Your open doors. 

But...all the while...when we feel we're doing close to nothing, God is up to many things.

Palm Sunday 2023

Last Sunday was Palm Sunday and 3-year old 'D' had a slight runny nose (which meant she needed some cuddling and lots of fluids) so I went to church (main sanctuary) with her. I had to sit where I normally wouldn't- behind one of the columns. When she fell asleep, I was stuck in my seat till the Communion time when I woke her up to let us go. To me, I couldn't wave my palm 'branch' and dance the way I would have on a Palm Sunday but I'm grateful to God for the willpower to even show up. There's joy in the house of the Lord! Our challenges shouldn't keep us at home. I kinda had to rush into the service mpo - no make-up & some sweat :) (see photo above), one earring fell at a point and was picked up for me by an usher. I could be embarrassed but I didn't really care. All that mattered was that my feet were in the house of the Lord and I believe there's always a blessing, an encouragement, a refreshing word or hymn to pick up from the presence of the Lord. Let's be careful about the things that keep us  from showing up in God's house.  

Hand-woven, hand-decorated, for God's Glory!

In the year of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of International Mother Language Day, let me share a story of one of the Silver Jubilee Projects of WinE Ghana....

About a month ago, I was privileged to be part of a project handing over team, on behalf of the Women in Engineering (WinE) wing of the Ghana Institution of Engineering, to visit Kpedzi. A fishing community in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana, Ewe is the main local language in Kpedzi, though many of the townsfolk understand and speak Twi too. 

We successfully handed over 10 bio-digester toilets to the community as part of WinE's 25th Anniversary outreach initiative, and I must highlight that stakeholder engagements with the people in the local language contributed a great deal to this project.

I felt very honoured to have had the opportunity to serve as an interpreter when the team went to Kpedzi in July 2024, and again in February 2025. Engineers had come up with a solution that would be beneficial to the community. We however needed to break down the concept of a 'biodigester' in plain-language and also explain to the community how we needed their collaborative efforts to make this project a success. It was a joy to see how the faces of the locals lit up once they grasped the concepts in their local language. 

Did you know that Ghana will need to construct about four million toilets in the next six years to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Six – 'Access to clean water and sanitation for all?' And this is just one aspect of all the goals we want to achieve as a nation. There's work to do!

Those who have interacted with me along work lines would know that SDG 17 is my favourite: it says "partnerships for the goals." I believe with the right collaborative efforts and partnerships, we, together, have what it takes to make the world a better place. There's a quote by Nelson Mandela that says, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.

Could it be that we have been sitting on our 'high horses' - attending many conferences and webinars, proving among ourselves who understands what better, etc. - and have neglected the acts of explaining 'simply', sometimes in local dialects, to our 'non- or low-English speaking' communities all the 'big things' we mean by words and phrases like 'climate change', 'resource efficiency', 'sustainability', 'renewable energy', 'recycling', 'reusing', 'biodegradable', etc. Albert Einstein put it this way - "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

I look forward to more collaborative efforts in Africa, using our local dialects to reach our communities, and achieving more together. Together, we can! Together, we'll move further!

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