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| Mxbel reciving the citation from PROMOAFRICA |
One of Ghana’s sensational female
veteran musician, Ms. Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah popularly known as Mzbel has been
nominated as Disability Music Ambassador for PROMOFRICA at a colorful event at
La Villa Boutique hotel in Accra on 14th February 2018 for a period
of three years.
According to a citation presented to her at the event witness by the
leadership of Ghana coalition of Disability Organisations and the media, reads
“The Network of Journalists for the Promotion of the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities in Africa (PROMOAFRICA), with pleasure nominate you to serve as
our special Disability Music Ambassador to help raise funds to support its activities to
train African journalists on the African Unions (AU) Charter on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities”.
“Your Appointment as a Special
Music Ambassador is based on your long-time experience, exposure and influence
in the art, cultural and music industry in Ghana, couples with your enthusiasm
to work with the underprivileged, the marginalized, women and children in Ghana”.
“As Special Ambassador, you are
tasked in helping to promote positively the rights of persons with disabilities
in Ghana and Africa and work closely with PROMOAFRICA’s projects from the
period February 2018 to February 2021”.
According the citation signed by
the executive Secretary of PROMOAFRICA Mr.
Mariam Nyarkoa Amponsah said, “With your competency, leadership and
creativity, we place responsibility on you and your outfit (Mzbel Music) to
work with PROMOAFRICA to organize the First Ghana National Disability Awards
and Concert to raise funds for PROMOAFRICA and Africa Disability Alliance (ADA)
to encourage inclusion of PWDs in society”.
“Demonstrating your support for
this project will ensure great benefit and incredible opportunities for us,
PWD’s and journalists that will benefit from your generous benevolence”.
“In thanking you for accepting
this noble task, we extend also our very best wishes in connection with the
important new responsibilities you are about to assume”.
The Network of Journalist for the
Promotion of the Rights of Persons with Disability in Africa (PROMOAFRICA) was
formed by the African Decade Secretariat of Persons with disabilities in the
Senegalese capital Dakar on the 24th of April 2008 by journalists attending a
training workshop on the "new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities and the New Terminology Guide. Attended by journalists from
Liberia, the Gambia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, La Cote D’ Ivore, Ghana,
Senegal, Togo and Burundi.
PROMOAFRICA was launched on the 23rd June 2008 by the Deputy Minister of
Manpower, Youth and Employment, Hon Frema Opare, tasked to work closely with
the disability organizations in Ghana and Africa to achieve their
aims and objectives.
Source: Seth
Addi/TodayGhanaNews.com
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