Dr Charity Binka, Executive Director, Women, Media, and Change (WOMEC), says girls must be at the forefront of change initiatives to ensure their inclusion in decision-making. She said while investments in girls continued to be scarce, the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises had negatively affected them, making life harder for them. She said girls...

Women Media and Change (WOMEC) has had discussions with the Women Banking Unit of Access Bank on possible areas of collaboration. The meeting, which took place in the offices of WOMEC on Friday, September 2, 2022, discussed projects that the two institutions could jointly carry out that would impact positively on the lives of young...

Dr. Charity Binka, Executive Director of Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) tasks journalists across West Africa to promote issues on Women, Newborn, Children and Adolescent Wellbeing that would help influence good policies. This was during the WAHO-WNCAW Regional Dissemination Workshop of the “Catalyzing Leadership to Improve Health Outcomes for Women, Adolescents, and Children in West...

Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) awards nine journalists from three West African countries for excellence in Women, Newborn, Children and Adolescent Wellbeing (WNCAW) reporting as part of the WNCAW project in collaboration with Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) and funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) – Canada. The event took place at Alisa...

Professor Stanley Okolo, Director-General of the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO) says Africa needs bold Journalists who will speak up for change in women and children’s health. He said the health needs of women must preoccupy every well-meaning African to ensure that the health systems and arrangements responded to the needs of women and children....

Gender and Leadership Forum has been organized for students at the Kpone Community Senior High School, Greater Accra Region to empower the students, especially the adolescent girls to challenge themselves to greater heights in society. It also served as an advocacy platform to equip adolescents to understand the tenets of gender equality and the empowerment...

The first International Women’s Day was held in March 1911 when women and men came together to talk about the need for women to have basic rights afforded to them, the right to vote, the right to work, the right to speak out in public and the right to equal pay. As an annual celebration,...

The Women, Media and Change (WOMEC), a Non-Governmental Organization, has joined the global community to mark the 2021 International Day of the Girl-Child at Sebrepor, a community in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Students from some selected schools within the municipality converged at the Methodist Church in Sebrepor for the 2021 International...

Dr. Esther Priscila Biamah-Danquah, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Director has disclosed that a Special Clinic will be dedicated to cater for the welfare of pregnant teenagers within the municipality. She said many pregnant teenagers do not attend antenatal or go to the hospital at all because they are shy of the elderly pregnant women who...

Dr. Charity Binka, Executive Director of Women in Media and Change (WOMEC), says women are resourceful in the face of adversity and can contribute to make the world a better place to live in when given the opportunity. She said there were a number of women in the country and the world had attained higher...