Like women in other nations across the continent, many of the Liberian
women in the Camp Liberia refugee settlement, at Gomoa Buduburam, in
Ghana's Central Region, have defied great odds, to bootstrap their way
out of the poverty trap, themselves, with very little outside
assistance.
My dear friend, the beautiful and enterprising Hajia Tenneh Kamara, who has a provisions shop (that operates 24/7 all year round, bang opposite the entrance to the St.Gregory Catholic Hospital), in Camp Liberia, is a typical example of Camp Liberia's hardworking Liberian refugee womenfolk.
Yet, amazingly, the vast majority of the Liberian women who fled their
country to seek refuge in Ghana, never actually ever received any kind
of post traumatic stress disorder counselling when they left war-torn
Liberia (then in the throes of a brutal civil war), to Ghana, to escape
the barbarity of drug-crazed child-soldiers, who were often the most
deadly troops in that war-of-infamy.
The former Liberian leader, the Noble Peace Laureate, President Ellen
Johnson-Seirleif, who presided over a relatively peaceful post civil
war period, during her 8-year tenure, is visiting Ghana as the guest of
honour, at the annual exhibition held by the Christo Asafo Church,
founded by Apostle Kojo Safo Kantanka, at their Gomoa Mpotem
headquarters town.
The question is: What deal could, and, should, former President Ellen
Johnson-Seirleif, strike, with Apostle Safo Kantanka, to enable Camp
Liberia's younger generations, especially its females, who were born in
Ghana, and whose parents and guardians have opted to be integrated into
Ghanaian society, to receive free training, and benefit, from the Christo
Asafo Church's many apprenticeship schemes, and technical training
courses, available at its headquarters' town of Gomoa Mpotem's
Church-owned educational institutions?
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