Work Focus: Social Entrepreneurship, Banking, Science
This episode features Akofa Bentsi-Enchill, who is a Social Entrepreneur. Akofa is passionate about effecting transformational change in the lives of underprivileged Ghanaian girls. She believes that the education and mentoring of the ‘girl child’ can truly transform a community and has spent the last 12 years doing just.
Akofa is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Akua Kuenyehia Foundation (AKF) for underprivileged girls.
AKF’s programmes include:
- AKF Educational Scholarship Scheme, which has awarded over 60 educational scholarships to date
- AKF Annual Mentoring Summer Camp, which has provided career, community, entrepreneurship and practical skills training for over 200 underprivileged girls
- AKF Monthly Speaker Series, which provides practical and hands on mentoring and life skills not only to the Akua Kuenyehia Foundation beneficiaries but to other underprivileged girls as well.
She has also secured some ground-breaking partnerships with organisations like MasterCard Foundation (through the African Leadership Academy) to provide tertiary educational scholarships for AKF beneficiaries. To date the Foundation has secured the following external scholarships through partnership agreements:
Akofa holds a First Class Honours Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a Masters in Management from the London School of Economics. Prior to her role in the Akua Kuenyehia Foundation, Akofa worked at Barclays Bank UK for 10 years. Whilst working in Barclays Bank, she won the National Mentoring Consortium Ethnic Minority Mentor of the year for her work with undergraduate students in the University of East London.
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