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Empowering Women to change the World – Eunice Golloh in the highlights
There has been an ongoing conversation on the global call for the world to support, invest and empower women and girls. It is not surprising that the Sustainable Development Goals include not only gender-specific actions and statistics, but also an entire goal dedicated to gender parity.
The fifth Sustainable Development Goal is bold, broad and important. It challenges the world to “Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls”, and it is a goal that most women around the world believe in wholeheartedly. It appears to be the goal of particular relevance as women and men are rallying for more equal rights at the office and in society.
Eunice Golloh is the President and Founder of Impact Wave Initiative, a women community driven non-profit organization, dedicated to assisting young women build themselves to their best potential through mentorship, workshops, and physical development.
Eunice, who is very passionate about empowering young women to know their self-worth and the greatest impact they can make with what God has placed inside of them believes women can change the narrative when they are given the opportunity and equipped with the requisite information.
Brought up in a Ghanaian household where education was very important and taught to be powerful, Eunice has risen through the ranks to become a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst by profession as well as the Chief Executive Officer and President of HKG IT Consulting, based in the United States of America.
A Ghanaian American, she has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Chemistry from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity Policy and Management from University of Maryland Global Campus. She is currently completing her Doctorate degree in Cybersecurity at Marymount University.
With her team in Ghana, they will be hosting the Impact Conference on 22nd December 2022 at the Holiday Hotel in Accra. Expected to attract hundreds of young women from across the nation’s capital and beyond, it is a platform to discuss solutions to challenges women are confronted with. There will be some distinguished speakers to share real life stories of the challenges along their journey to success.
Eunice believes women empowerment is essential to the health and social development of families, communities and countries. “When we get women to live safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potential and also contribute their skills to the workforce and can raise happier and healthier children. They are also able to help fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large”, she emphasised.
According to her, a key part of empowering women is through education as women who are educated can pursue meaningful work and contribute to their country’s economy. Her call on all key stakeholders to help in the empowerment of women is based on her belief that empowered women alongside their male counterparts is the key to economic growth, political and social transformation of a country.
This is in line with the vision of Eunice’s Impact Wave Initiative to change the concept and mind-set of today’s women to change the narrative. “Our mission is to empower the 21st century young women in building themselves to their full potential, through mentorships, workshops and physical development. We are women of power, integrity and of excellence”, she added.
