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Esenam Amuzu European Development Days 2017 Young Leader
For Esenam Amuzu’s peers in Ghana, teen pregnancy, gender-based violence and risky sexual behavior are often the norm. On World Population Day, she explains how sex education and access to contraception can turn girls’ lives around.
When Ghana passed its domestic violence law in 2007, it promised to set up a fund to help pay for survivors’ medical bills and establish women’s shelters. But that never happened. So private lawyer Martin Kpebu took the government to court – and won.
While his two breast cancer clinics help women in Ghana access lifesaving healthcare, Dr. Paul Ofori-Atta’s charity, MOTEC-Life, gives young Ghanaian surgeons access to some of the U.K.’s best doctors, so they can use their new skills to treat children back home.
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