VLOG 1 Ghana: Accra & Global Mamas
WAX PRINT - VLOG 1: We visited the bustling Accra market and visited Global Mamas for an empowering and insightful tour around their facilities and interviews with founder Renae Adams and Dorcas Baiden.
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Empowering Women in Ghana: Deborah Asmah, a Global Mama Since 2009
Deborah Asmah has been a seamstress partnering with Global Mamas since 2009. Over the past 9 years she's personally experienced the impact a fair, sustainable wage can have. We invite you to join Global Mamas in celebrating 15 years of exceptional impact in partnership with the women of Ghana!
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Global Mamas is a fair trade nonprofit partnering with women in Ghana to ensure sustainable livelihoods through the production of handcrafted goods. Shop batiks, recycled glass jewelry, and natural shea products handcrafted in the traditional way at shopglobalmamas.com
Empowering Women in Ghana: Gladys Adimer, A Global Mama since 2006
Gladys Adimer began working with Global Mamas as a Jewelry Assembler. Since then she has been promoted first to Inventory Manager, and is now General Manager of our entire Krobo location overseeing 50+ producers and staff. Learn more of Gladys' story and how fair, sustainable wages are creating prosperity both for her family and community in Odumase Krobo.
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We invite you to join Global Mamas in celebrating 15 years of exceptional impact in partnership with the women of Ghana! ----- Global Mamas is a fair trade nonprofit partnering with women in Ghana to ensure sustainable livelihoods through the production of handcrafted goods. Shop batiks, recycled glass jewelry, and natural shea products handcrafted in the traditional way at shopglobalmamas.com
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Global Mamas - Global Giving Vid
Global Mamas, an NGO operating in Ghana, is expanding into a small and vulnerable fishing village in Southern Ghana called Prampram.
In order to create 23 new fair trade jobs for women and purchase a portable building extension, we have partnered with Global Giving to raise $27,217.
Meet the Mamas: Philomina Stephens
Philomina Stephens - Seamstress in Cape Coast, Ghana
Global Mamas - A Decade of Prosperity
The Global Mamas' community has been working since 2003 to create a life of prosperity - financial well-being, happiness, and health - for African women and their families by creating and selling handmade products of the highest quality.
Global Mamas Internship in Cape Coast, Ghana
Abby Smith '20 (Notre Dame) discusses her application process and gives tips on creating a successful application for a Kellogg Institute Summer Entrepreneurial Internship. Create your experience - more info at
Meet the Mamas: Alice Korsah
A multi-talented artisan, Alice Korsah is a seamstress and a batiker. Also an entrepreneur, Alice opened Jehovah Jireh in a tiny rented room while she was in her early twenties. She prides herself on reliability and nurtures strong customer relations by proving to her customers that they can depend on her for high quality work and timely completion. This philosophy has enabled Alice to gradually grow her business and bring on apprentices. Even with her solid reputation, Alice has found great challenges in growing her enterprise as the local market is saturated with seamstresses who sew custom-fit clothes. While working with Global Mamas, Alice has increased her savings with Progressive Women's Credit Union so that one day she can take on a loan to expand to a larger store. As of June 06, she has saved 4 million cedis (~US $350), and has qualified for a loan from the credit union to contribute to the cost of increasing her store merchandise.
Global Mamas Day 2
The Global Mamas community works together to create a life of prosperity for African women and their families. They achieve prosperity by creating and selling Fair Trade handmade products of the highest quality.
After a tour of the Garment Factory in Cape Coast Ghana and an opportunity to meet the 'Mamas' - I got a chance to spend some time with Patience, the People Development Manager. She explained to me the Principals of Fair Trade, and how Global Mamas align themselves to the these values. Don't forget to subscribe to follow my journey!
Next Vlog: A day with Global Mamas, exploring Cape Coast to meet with Mama's in the village.
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Global Mamas: Batiking in Ashaiman
Watch our 4 talented Global Mamas batikers in Ashaiman, Ghana go through the stages of batiking. We are very lucky to have Grace, Fausty, Mariama and Emmanuela on the team!
Meet the Mamas: Sarah Aggrey
Sarah Adwoa Aggrey took up sewing in 1995 because she thought it would provide her with a secure future. Now, she runs her business from the verandah of her grandmother's apartment block. In August 2006, she joined the Global Mamas co-operative after being told about their work by a friend of hers who makes batik cloth. Sarah is divorced and has sole responsibility of her teenage daughter, and they live together in a two-room apartment in a suburb of Cape Coast. When she's not sewing or doing the housework, Sarah likes watching telenovellas soaps from Latin America which are very popular in Ghana. She imagines her future with Global Mamas will be successful and allow her to hire apprentices, which will give her more time to rest (and watch her favorite television programs!). Sarah also hopes to search for a bigger home so that she and her daughter can live more comfortably and provide her daughter with the means to train as a nurse.
Meet the Mamas: Hannah Dodoo
Hannah Dodoo proved herself as a talented seamstress when she placed second in the national sewing competition Wax Style 1998 GTP. Hannah's talent and passion for sewing was perfected while she lived in Germany, studying design with a focus on pattern making. In 1982, Hannah began her own seamstress shop with a small bank loan. Starting in her own home with no apprentices, she has come a very long way. Now Hadod Fashions, her busy shop in the Cape Coast market, employs seven apprentices and nine workers. Hannah's future plan is to purchase a computer this year and use it for designing. Hannah's hard work with Global Mamas has allowed her to share her welfare with her employees. For example, one worker was finally able to rent a house, and another was able to assist her spouse in expanding his business.
Global Mamas: Festival Time!
Here is a little glimpse of the Krobo Festival. The march of chiefs takes place on the main Somonya-Kpong road. Many of our Mama Bead Assemblers in the Global Mamas Krobo office climb Krobo Mountain each year - it is the highlight of the festival.
Global Mamas: Volunteer Adventures in Tamale
Our summer interns took a trip up to the Northern Region to visit the CMA Vittin shea processing centre to get a hands on experience of where Global Mamas shea butter comes from.
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The Global Mamas community works together to create a life of prosperity for African women and their families.
They achieve prosperity by creating and selling handmade products of the highest quality.
We invite you to join us in supporting such an inspiring community of women who are working to transform their lives and the lives of other women in Africa.
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Her Royal Highness Sylvia Nagginda - GLF Accra 2019
Her Royal Highness the Nnabagereka of Buganda, who is Queen consort of the King of Buganda, Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, is a traditional leader and an ardent advocate of human development rooted in cultural values. Her Royal Highness is the first Queen in the history of the Kingdom Buganda, which is the largest, to establish an office in the seat of the Kingdom of Buganda called “Bulange” that compliments the ongoing development work of the Kingdom and of the Government of Uganda.
Through the Nnabagereka Development Foundation, which she founded in 2000, she has been able to do charitable work for children, the youth, and women in education, health care, community empowerment, and the advancement of good cultural values and practices for sustainable development.
She is an icon and a champion who is highly regarded in society for her leadership in mobilizing, sensitizing and empowering children, the youth, women, and children, including children with disabilities, and for advancing “Obuntubulamu” as a strategic approach in all programmes and projects, that empowers individuals reclaim their cultural heritage and encourages the use cultural values as an engine for human development.
Her Royal Highness has been recognised for her foundational work and chosen to be a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund in Uganda; a Torch Bearer for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG3); an Ambassador for Mama Club (an organisation for mothers living with HIV/AIDS), and a champion in the Campaign to End Paediatric HIV/AIDS in Uganda. She is also a patron of Hospice Africa Uganda, ChildFund International (Uganda), Female Sponsorship Foundation Makerere University Uganda, Special Olympics Uganda, and Programme for Accessible Health Communication and Education, Conservation through Public Health, and the Buganda Tourism Board.
She was the founder member of the African Queens and Women Cultural Leaders Network, co-founder and patron of African Royals for Culture and Development, a member of the Board of the African Philanthropy Forum, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Thinkers Forum.
HRH collaborates with the Ministry of Health in Uganda, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and WHO as well as other civil society organisations on community health related interventions.