Co-founder and the President of the Laweh Open University College, Prof (Mrs) Goski Alarbi says, women over the years have successfully impacted the private sector and should encourage each other to impact more.

According to her, women currently are doing amazing in the private sector right from the micro to small scale and to major scale level which motivates young female entrepreneurs to aspire to higher heights.

In an interview with Starrfm.com.gh at the Feminine Achievers networking night, she said, being part of the Feminine achievers, open women business owners and entrepreneurs to bigger opportunities for business development and also gives them access to uplift other women to impact the young generation.


The networking night which was held at Caesars Court at Ridge, Accra, had awardees of the Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards have dinner and introduce their businesses to each other. The scheme was established to identify, publicly recognize and reward women whose personal and professional conduct have been exemplary and whose achievements have been outstanding.

The awards seek to publicly recognize women in Ghana who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in various forms of endeavour across both the public and private sectors, such as entrepreneurs, professionals, corporate executives, public institutional managers, diplomats, sportswomen and traditional rulers.

Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards is the first, and therefore the oldest, pioneering scheme that has specifically tried to recognize the accomplishments of women on the basis of their gender. Before its introduction awardees at most award schemes have been inordinately skewed towards members of the male gender and thus deserving women have been deprived of the public recognition they should be entitled to.

Speaking to the organisers, they said “Our award scheme has set out to correct this situation by giving due recognition to women whose achievements have been outstanding but whose accomplishments have not been publicly acknowledged to date, and in this, we have been very successful indeed.

The Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards is now in its fifth year following the widely acclaimed inaugural edition held in 2015. It is conceptualized and designed as a platform with which we identify exemplary conduct, performance and achievement by women in specified aspects or sectors of public governance, professional and business activities, or in their contributions to the well- being of society and we publicly recognize them for this.

The awards also aim to identify and publicize role models whose accomplishments would encourage and inspire women in general across the country to similarly conduct their activities and behaviour in exemplary fashion. The awards seek to win the support of the male gender towards affirmative action which would enable the nation to benefit from the full potential of women.