The Chief Executive of the American International School (AIS), Mrs. Adelaide Siaw Agyepong, has been named the 2023 Outstanding Female Entrepreneur in Education at the 9th Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards.
The award is in recognition of her immense contribution to quality education in Ghana.
Receiving the award, Mrs. Agyepong said she was grateful for the recognition, which she said was a “doing of the Lord.”
“I always say that when your time is due for the Lord to bring you out of obscurity, He does it beautifully,” she said.
She noted that the award reflects the collective efforts of the AIS community.
“In the 21st century, we have to help students to be analytical thinkers and we are deliberate in the approach because we want to make them problem solvers,” she stressed.
“I want to encourage young female entrepreneurs to forge on and should not relent and must have faith in whatever they are engaged in and one day they will be recognized,” she said.
The colourful event took place on August 25th, 2023, at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra.
The 9th Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards aims at identifying and publicizing role models whose accomplishments would encourage and inspire women, in general, to conduct their activities and behaviour in an exemplary fashion.
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.
The 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.