A GNA Feature by Dennis Peprah
Bekwai, (Ashanti), Nov 14, GNA – In a political climate, often defined by gimmicks and promises, true impact is measured not by how loud one speaks, but by how many lives are quietly transformed. Â
This is the story of Mrs Gloria Poku-Adusei, the Executive Director of the Gloria Poku-Adusei Foundation (GPA) and her unwavering commitment to making the Ghanaian girl-child not just visible, but invincible.
The GPA Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sanitation, safe drinking water, hygiene, and quality education.
Mrs Poku-Adusei, is the wife of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai Constituency, Mr Ralph Poku-Adusei.
She has over the years demonstrated that her role goes far beyond the ceremonial, translating goodwill into tangible grassroots interventions.
Promoting girl-child education Â
Just few days ago, 10 brilliant but needy students in the Bekwai Constituency of the Ashanti Region received more than just financial support; they received a future.
They became the latest beneficiaries of a deliberate and sustained scholarship scheme by the GPA Foundation which had the core mandate of empowering women and girls through advocacy, skills training, and philanthropy.
For these 10 girls the intervention means the difference between dropping out and standing out, for their families, a relief and for the Bekwai, an investment in a more self-sufficient tomorrow.
This is not an isolated act of kindness, it’s a pattern of purpose.
According to Mrs Poku-Adusei, presently the GPA Foundation was supporting about 25 young women in various Senior High and tertiary institutions across the nation, with the ten of them from Bekwai.
Each one represents a deliberate choice to break the cycle of poverty that disproportionately affects young women when education becomes unaffordable.
Menstrual hygiene Â
Beyond educational scholarships, Mrs Poku-Adusei said her organisation is also tackling menstrual hygiene, believed to be one of the silent barriers to girls’ education.
She said the foundation had distributed sanitary pads to girls in several Basic and Senior High Schools across the Bekwai constituency, ensuring that no girl missed school or lost confidence because of her period.
In fact, that support is a practical, dignity-restoring intervention that keeps girls in the classroom.
AgricultureÂ
In agriculture, Mrs Poku-Adusei said through her foundation several women groups in smallholder farming had been supported with farm inputs to secure their livelihoods.
Community Safety and Enterprise
Mrs Poku-Adusei said the foundation had also facilitated the donation of streetlights to the Denyase Light Industrial Area, boosting productivity after dark.
Education Â
In education, her footprints are found in Sebedie Primary and Amoaful KG, where Mrs Poku-Adusei donated books and teaching and learning materials to enhance foundational learning.
In fact, her compassion extends to the most vulnerable.
At the Save Our Souls Orphanage at Bone in the Anwiankwanta Electoral Area, Mrs Poku-Adusei she the foundation had frequently donated books and food items like rice, oil, gari, and even sanitation materials like dustbins to put smiles on the faces of the children.
The foundation’s periodic celebration of Children’s Party had restored joy and dignity to many of the children, if not all of them.
Compassion  Â
Convincingly, what makes Mrs Poku-Aduesi work compelling is her compassion and sincerity of providing interventions like scholarships, skills training, women empowerment programs and donations.
Some of those interventions are ongoing at Wenchi, her hometown and parts of the country, especially Accra.
Conclusion Â
In fact, Mrs Poku-Adusei’s genuine leadership that complements and strengthens governance.
As her husband works to drive policy and development in Parliament and the Constituency, Mrs Poku-Adusei is also building a human capital.
Together, the couple embodied a shared vision of ensuring that Bekwai is self-sufficient as its people, especially women and girls are empowered to stand on their own.
Mrs Poku-Adusei said she believes in the adage that: “When you educate a girl, you educate a community and when you empower a woman, you secure a constituency’s future”.
The GPA Foundation is not just paying fees, but raising a generation of women leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers and change-makers who will return to serve Bekwai one day.
Bekwai has seen many promises from politicians and their political parties, but what the town is experiencing now is progress in a quiet, consistent, and compassionate manner.
GNA
Edited by Kenneth Odeng AdadeÂ
Writer: Dennis Peprah Â
Email: [email protected]Â