PORTIA MANYAYA

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PORTIA MANYAYA

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    Portia Manyaya from Ghana is an inspirational young leader with a zeal for humanitarian work and youth development. She has improved lives through nutrition, medical outreaches, skill acquisition, career guidance, coaching, and mentorship. “Success on Purpose” is a skills acquisition and advocacy campaign for schools with over 3,000 beneficiaries recorded. An additional 5,000 benefitted from her youth empowerment summit. She campaigned against the superstitious practice of abandoning malnourished children by educating parents, engaging stakeholders, and managing over 4,000 children who have been nursed back to health. Through her menstrual hygiene campaign, over 1,500 girls learned to make reusable sanitary pads and gained access to materials through the hygiene banks created. The “Back to Focus” campaign for adolescent mothers impacted 80 girls from two districts. Portia also had medical outreaches in two locations that benefitted more than 600 people and her medical campaigns have led to the fumigation of the Lingbenga River, which helped reduce the rate of river blindness in the community. Her recent breast cancer awareness and screening campaign reached over 1,400 women and girls. We applaud Portia's innovativeness and commitment to nation-building..