MIND YOUR BUSINESS WITH ETHEL N. AMOAKO BAFFOE

Hello and welcome everyone. In today's exciting blog post, I have the privilege of interviewing a wonderful young lady called Ethel Nanayaa Amoako Baffoe. She is so amazing and exudes so much confidence, you’ll see. Sit back and enjoy this.

Ama Duncan (AD): You‘re welcome Afrakuma. I’m so glad to have you.

Ethel Nanayaa Amoako Baffoe(ENAB): Thank you so much too. I’m grateful for being on this platform.

AD: Afrakuma, you are a woman of many hats: writer, ghost writer, founder of Grooming Girls Network, entrepreneur, etc and I’m curious to learn more about you. First tell us about yourself.

ENAB: I’m Ethel Nanayaa Amoako Baffoe, the founder of Grooming Girls Network. It is an NGO I created with friends back in school. I grew up in a community and a family where as a young girl, my mother didn’t really pay attention to me, so most of the information I needed, I got them from the wrong sources. I didn’t get the right information when it came to career, sexual health, etc. As a result, I missed out on a lot of things. So as I grew up, I realized this problem still persists with a lot more other girls. And so I told myself, why don’t we create a sisterhood online platform, where we can have conversations with these girls and feed them with the right information? Currently, we’re working on our Period Poverty project. I have been a victim of period poverty and it made me miss out on school whenever I was on my period because my mother could not afford to buy me sanitary towels sometimes. And the times she could also afford, it was not enough because we were twins. Asides these projects, I’m a ghost writer and a trained Journalist and an Entrepreneur as well.

AD: It’s interesting that your personal struggle led to the start of your organization. That’s brilliant! Tell us about Grooming Girls Network?

ENAB: Basically, what we do at Grooming Girls is to provide comprehensive sexual education, mentorship and career guidance for young girls. We believe that if you want women to grow up to become who you want them to be, you need to start training them from the onset. Feeding them with the right information as they’re growing up will help them immensely rather than when they’ve already made all the mistakes.

AD: That’s fantastic! How long have you been in existence?

ENAB: Grooming Girls started in 2017 in school...Click on the link to enjoy the full blog post https://www.amaduncan.com/mind-your-business-with-ethel-n-amoako-baffoe/