Enabling good health for women

Today I visited two of our grantees, Women Unite Against Aids in Ghana (WUAGG) and the Nana Yaa Memorial Reproductive Health Centre.

WUAAG describes its vision as enabling women infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to live a life of dignity in a supportive and enabling environment. It was a real privilege to be able to visit the centre to see the projects that WUAGG have been able to engage in with a grant from AWDF.

Did you know that snails eat fruit? WUAGG's members have been able to engage in trade and income generation activities with a financial grant from AWDF and snail production, batik and bead making are a few of the activities that the industrious women at WUAGG engage in.

After a snail's pace journey through the market and traffic of Medina I arrived at the Nana Yaa Memorial Reproductive Health Centre. At this centre women are provided with free health checks, advice and referrals where appropriate. The Chief Executive told me an interesting anecdote: Her vehicle has broken down by the wayside and she was feeling sorry for herself when a young girl selling tomatoes approached her and asked her to help herself to some of her tomatoes. Why she asked her? The girl's response? ' Aren't you the ones who have brought Korle-Bu to this area? Korle-Bu is the main teaching hospital in Ghana. The Nana Yaa centre is not Korle Bu by any stretch of the imagination but to her and probably others in the area it might as well be a teaching hospital.

- Nana
Program Officer Fundraising & Communications