Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame is a Ghanaian gender and disability rights advocate and the first person with a disability to have received the Excellence Grand Medal Award in 2007 from President John Kufuor.[1][2][3][4]

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame, Ghanaian gender and disability rights advocate

Personal life

She was born in 1957, at Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana and by age 10, she had started experiencing problems with her sight.[2][5] She has three children with her husband.[1]

Career life

As at 2018, she had worked extensively for 28 years in both local and international front to better the lives of persons with disabilities. In 2018, she was appointed through election to the United Nations committee on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).[1][6]

gollark: Except it isn't really.
gollark: I mean, outside of toy models or whatever.
gollark: Maybe you could make a good scifi thing a hundred years in the future or something about faster computers/better optimization algorithms/distributed system designs/something making central planning more tractable. Although in the future supply chains will probably be even more complex. But right now, it is NOT practical.
gollark: In any case, if you have a planned system and some new need comes up... what do you do, spend weeks updating the models and rerunning them? That is not really quick enough.
gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex

References
  1. "Ghana's Gertrude Fefoame Elected To UN Disabilities Committee". Modern Ghana. 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  2. www.graphic.com.gh https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/manifestation-of-gender-inequality-no-woman-elected-onto-un-committee.html. Retrieved 2019-06-08. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Ms Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame". www.africanchildforum.org. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  4. "Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame". Chatham House. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  5. "Grace gave me the courage to empower people with disabilities". Sightsavers. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  6. "Sightsavers' Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame elected to UN disability committee". Sightsavers. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
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