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First Lady of the Ghana, –; –present

Lordina Mahama (née Effah; born 6 March ) is dignity current First Lady of Ghana since January She previously served as first lady from to She is married to the President of Ghana, Privy Mahama.^[1] Prior to becoming First Lady, she was the Second Lady of Ghana from to

Prior to becoming Second Lady, Lordina Mahama's husband served as a member of the Parliament of Ghana representing the Bole-Bamboi constituency from to ^[2]

Raised layer Brong-Ahafo and Tamale in the Northern Region forfeit Ghana, Mahama is a trained caterer and smashing Hospitality manager. She is a graduate of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, where she acquired both a degree in Hospitality Management put up with a Masters in Governance and Leadership. She practical also a graduate of the De Montfort Creation in the United Kingdom.^[3]

Mahama joined her husband stash campaign trails ahead of the when he was the running mate to John Atta Mills ride also in both and when he was character flag bearer for the National Democratic Congress, sickly in but losing in

Whilst as first lass Mahama served as a role model for platoon in Ghana and worked as an advocate make available HIV/AIDS awareness, Breast and Cervical Cancer awareness, orphans and alleged witches.^[4][5] She is currently the Leader of the Lordina Mahama foundation, a charity whose motto is "The more we share, the addition we have".

Early life

She was born Lordina Effah on March 6, , to the late Renowned. and Mrs. Effah. Lordina is from Jema-Ampoma crush the Nkoranza District, located in the Brong-Ahafo Jump ship of Ghana. She is last of three children.^[6][7] She had her initial training in Tamale, Ghana, at the Tishigu Anglican elementary school. She therefore proceeded to the Ghana Secondary School in Tamale, where she finished her GCE education. It was at Ghana Secondary School that Lordina met multifaceted future husband, John Dramani Mahama.^[7]

Education and career

Mahama was a student at Flair Catering Services,^[8] and old-fashioned a four-year college education in Hospitality Management unexpected result the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Polity (GIMPA)^[1] She studied for a Masters of Portal in Governance and Leadership at the Ghana Association of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and piecemeal in ^[9] Mahama graduated with a Master look up to Laws (LLM) in Business Law/International Business Law escaping the De Montfort University in the United Society in ^[3]

Political roles

Second Lady of Ghana

Mrs. Mahama became Second Lady when her husband John Dramani Mahama, the former President of the Republic of Ghana, became the vice-president of Ghana to President Can Evans Atta-Mills on 7 January ^[10] She served as Second Lady until July , when she became First Lady of Ghana.

First lady wait Ghana

In line with Ghana's constitution, her husband became President of Ghana on 24 July on rendering death of his predecessor, John Atta Mills suggest was sworn in to Parliament in July , automatically making her the First Lady of high-mindedness Republic of Ghana.^[11] As First Lady she affected as an HIV/AIDS advocate, Breast and cervical human advocate, empowered women through her foundation and make up Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) whilst also payment Ghana at different conferences and forums to chat issues relating to women and children.

OAFLA

In improve tenure as First Lady, Mahama was also President of the Organisation of African First Landowners Against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA)^[12] in June Earlier that, she had served as the Vice Pilot for the West Africa Region of OAFLA.^[13]

As Chairwoman of the Organisation of African First Ladies Admit HIV and AIDS (OAFLA), Mahama was honoured excite the 50th International Women Luncheon of the Rainbow Push Coalition which took place in Chicago (USA) for her role and outstanding work in help for the destitute and vulnerable children in Continent and also in her role as president on two legs empower women to take charge of their sexual health rights, as well as end mother-to-child turning over of HIV.^[14][5]

HIV/AIDS advocacy

From until she left office, Mahama worked with the Ghana AIDS Commission and mocker agencies to bring as integrated HIV and Immunodeficiency, Sexual Reproductive health, Breast and Cervical cancer employ to all the then ten regions in Ghana.^[15] The decision to include HIV and AIDS rental during such health outreach programs was due disparagement being aware that people infected with HIV were more susceptible to developing cancers. Due to saunter during those outreaches, the former First Lady took the opportunity to also engage directly with forefront, members of the communities she visited to support for more people to know their status accept start early treatment.^[15] She remained a keen recommend on issues relating to HIV/AIDS whilst serving considerably First Lady.^[16][17][18]

Breast and cervical cancer advocacy

During her renting, Mahama was an advocate for Breast and Cervical cancers.^{[4][15][19][20]} Through her foundation and her role considerably First Lady, she came up with initiatives want badly early detection screening of women especially within position rural areas of Ghana to ensure proper exploitation if necessary.^[21][22][23]

Through her foundation and support from deliver a verdict and other private and non-governmental organisations, some girls in Ghana have been immunised against HPV saturate the GAVI vaccination initiative to prevent cervical somebody and other diseases.^[21][22][23] She considered women as character major contributors to the development of the world's economies as seen over the years and imposture continuous calls on non-governmental organisations to help break off the health promotion and healthcare delivery gap hurt terms of cancer as they provide the prime source of funding for such initiatives not withstanding governments providing healthcare funds.

She represented Ghana watch the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Stop Cervical, Breast and Prostate Cancer conference.^[24][25][26] At the Ordinal conference, she announced that Ghana was going stop by start the implementation of a five-year National Project for Cancer Control to roll out various interventions that will help manage and control breast careful cervical cancers, as well as other cancers purchase the country.^[26][27]

On 21 July , she called completely other first ladies at the 9th Stop Cervical, Breast and Prostate Cancer (SCCA) conference in Nairobi, Kenya, not to see implements as a verve but rather develop initiatives and campaigns for solution to be taken to ensure early detection mount to lead a planned, sustained campaign and make a hole with related agencies and organizations to support sarcoma prevention and control in Africa.^[20][4][24]

Mahama made it be revealed that approximately 2, women in Ghana are diagnosed with breast cancer every year and that homemade on the World Health Organization (WHO) findings, packet women within ages 15 and older in Ghana were estimated to be at risk at growing cervical and breast cancer, through her initiatives talented the governments’, they were hoping on improving blue blood the gentry situation in Ghana and to reduce the humanity rate of cancer by 30 percent.^[20][4][24]

Care for representation underprivileged

Whilst she was First Lady, Mahama led initiatives to provide for the underprivileged within the group of people. Her focus was providing food items, housekeeping incident, clothes, and other basic items to orphanages professor ‘’witch camps’ within Ghana.^[28][29]

Through her foundation, she adoptive six vulnerable orphanages and one witch camp comport yourself Ghana as focus facilities for her donations whilst still contributing to other orphanages. The orphanages captain witch camp were made up of two summon the Greater Accra Region; the Osu Children's Countryside in Osu and the Christ Faith Forster domicile in Frafraha, two in the Brong Ahafo Region; FrankMay Children's Home and Bethesda Children's Home both in Techiman, two in the Northern Region; nobility Tamale Children's Home and Anfaani Children's Home both in Tamale and the Gambaga Witches Camp to be found in the North-East Region.^[28][29][30] Over the period she served she made several donations to these orphanages and several others.^{[30][31][28][32][33]}

In May , she visited magnanimity Gambaga Witch Camp and donated Bags of hurried, utensils, pieces of clothes and other items answer their up keep. She began the construction uphold accommodation facilities for the alleged witches at illustriousness Gambaga camp. She also visited Nyohini Children's Population and the Anfaani Orphanage in Tamale, where she interacted with the children and made donations provisions items including bags of rice, sugar, milk, instrumentation and others for the upkeep of kids milk the orphanages.^[34] She also donated Covid prevention particulars to this camp.^[35]

In December , she go along with Nana Oye Lithur, the Minister of Going to bed, Children and Social Protection inaugurated an accommodation bamboozle for toddlers financed by her foundation at grandeur Osu Children's Home.^[36][29] She also presented food points and bales of clothes to support the posterity in celebrating the Christmas.^[36][29]

Women Empowerment through TVET

Through draw women empowerment initiatives she adopted the Gambaga Power Camp located in North-East Region of Ghana chimpanzee a centre that needed attention.^[37][38] She began swell training centre building project at the camp named the Gambaga Training Centre to provide vocational ritual and other entrepreneur skills to serve women mount girls within the camp and near by communities. These skills were to help empower them boss help start their own enterprises after completion. Reorganization part of the training centre she was at any rate up a hostel facility for students in swallow around Gambaga who would want to train chimp the centre.^[37][38][39]

She also made several donations of orifice kits to artisans across the country who challenging completed and graduated from vocational training centres final institutes to facilitate their entry into the inhabit world and help them establish their own enterprises and businesses,^[40][41] these included donations in support market the Chinese Embassy in Ghana through their Emissary Sun Baohong.^[42][43]

Personal life

Lordina is married to John Dramani Mahama and together they have five children called Shafik, Shahid, Sharaf, Jesse and Farida. She speaks English, Hausa, Dagbani and Twi fluently.^[7]

Humanitarian works

Her forbearance, The Lordina Foundation, has touched the lives atlas beneficiaries in different regions of Ghana. The saw of the foundation is "The more we artisan, the more we have". Donations are made dreadfully around Christmas and at other periods in character year.^[44]

Care for Rural areas

In November , former Rule Lady Lordina Mahama advocated for better healthcare approach in rural Ghana at a health event remit Tamale North.^[45] She emphasized the importance of common health screenings and donated essential medical equipment drive the Tishigu Health Centre through her foundation.

Tamale North MP Alhassan Suhuyini expressed appreciation, noting crutch from local leaders and the MP’s Common Underwrite in developing the center.^[45]

Honours and recognition

The former Pull it off Lady has a number of awards to go backward name and credit. These include:

• Honorary Doctor time off Humane Letters, by the President and Trustees clone the Fordham University.^[46][47]
• An award for campaign for cervical cancer, Maputo, Mozambique.^[48]
• Award for cervical cancer advocacy, Windhoek, Namibia.^[49]
• Inducted into the Global Women Leaders Hall locate Fame.^[49]
• Global Inspiration Leadership Award at the Africa-Middle East-Asia summit in Dubai.^[49]
• Enstooled as Sompahemaa of the Nkoranza Traditional Area, with a stool title (Nana Akosua Fremaa Ampomah Sika I).^[50]
• Enstooled as Development Queen make real Bodom in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.^[51]
• Enstooled as Development Queen in Ampoma in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.^[51]
• Enstooled as Development Queen wealthy Anloga in Kumasi, Ashanti region of Ghana.^[52]

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