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Name: MENSAH LUCY
Nationality: Ghanaian
Email Address: lmensah@wuaag.org
wuaag@hotmail.com |
INTERESTS
Advocacy, Travelling, Cooking, Counselling and Caring for the sick |
PRIMARY FIELD OF SPECIALTY
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support; and Activism |
| EDUCATION |
| July 2004 |
Certificate in HIV/AIDS Counselling and Care-giving;
Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana, Legon |
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| 1974 |
Middle School Leavers’ Certificate;
Tanokrom Middle School, Takoradi, Ghana |
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| LANGUAGE |
| Language |
Speaking |
Reading |
Writing |
| English |
Good |
Good |
Fair |
| Fanti |
Excellent |
Excellent |
Good |
| Twi |
Excellent |
Good |
Good |
| Ga |
Good |
Fair |
Fair |
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| COMPETENCIES |
- Community and social mobilization
- Advocacy
- Implementation of community-centred HIV/AIDS Prevention programmes
- Implementation of HIV/AIDS Care and support programmes
- Good communication skills
- Training in income generating activities for PLWHA
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| WORK EXPERIENCE |
| 2002 – Date |
President,
Women United Against AIDS in Ghana (WUAAG)
Key Responsibilities
- Overall running of the organization
- Chairperson of WUAAG’s Executive Counsel
- Liaison between the Executive Council and the Board of Directors
- Design and initiation of care and support programmes/projects
- Strategising to enable the organization meet its strategic objectives
- Coordination of the secretariat and its activities
- Participation in the implementation of all projects and/or programmes |
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| 2006 – Date |
Vice-Financial Secretary
Society of Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) Ghana
Key Responsibilities
- Assists financial secretary in dealing with financial issues of the Executive Council of SWAA Ghana
- Assists financial secretary in coordinating the finances of SWAA Ghana
- Assists financial secretary in the collection of membership dues
- Assists financial secretary in the management of financial records |
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| 2003 – 2006 |
Executive Member of the Executive Council
Society of Women and AIDS in Ghana (SWAA) Ghana
Key Responsibilities
- Advise the Executive Council on all issues that affects SWAA Ghana in general, and the Executive Council in particular
- Assists in providing technical support for the implementation of activities and/or programmes of SWAA Ghana
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| RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS ATTENDED |
| May 2008 |
Imagining and Re-building Feminist Movement for the Future West Africa Movement-Building Initiative Training, Freetown Sierra Leone
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| February 2008 |
Microbicides 2008, New Delhi, India |
| December 2005 December 2005 Africa (ICASA), |
14th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa Abuja, Nigeria |
| October 2004 |
Women’s Leadership and Human Rights Training Program, Accra, Ghana
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| April 2002 |
West and Central Africa Regional Workshop on Orphans and other Vulnerable Children, Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire |
| July 2002 |
Commonwealth Youth Programme Africa Region; Commonwealth Secretariat, Accra Ghana |
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| LEADERSHIP |
| 2004 - Date |
Executive Council Member
National Association of Persons Living with HIV (NAP+), Ghana |
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| AWARD |
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| 2004 |
Courageous Leadership Award
Received from Letten Foundation, Barcelona, Spain |
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