AGA reaffirms commitment to empower women to mark International Women’s Day 

AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mine has reaffirmed its commitment to empower women through its developmental agenda as it marked International Women’s Day with a Fair.

International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year to recognize and honour the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world.

The day also serves as a call to action for accelerating women’s equality and addressing the challenges that women continue to face.

Speaking at an event to mark the day, the Managing Director of AngloGold Obuasi Mine, Mr. Samuel Boakye Pobee said though the mine has made significant strides in promoting female representation, it is still working assiduously to build their capacity to unlock opportunities and assume leadership roles in the mine.

“The mining industry has traditionally been male-dominated. We acknowledge that we have a responsibility to create opportunities for women to succeed. That is why we have made deliberate efforts to increase the number of female employees in our company in the next two years,” the Managing Director emphasised.

Ing. Rachael Wereko Oppong, a Senior Metallurgist of AGA, in a presentation said as women engineers on the mine, they have embarked on a project to inspire students in various schools in Obuasi to take to STEM education.

She stated that as part of their schedule they mentor the students and also guide them as to what they aspire to do in future.

Ing. Wereko Oppong encouraged ladies in various schools who wish to pursue engineering to contact her group for the necessary advice and support.

She also extended an invitation to parents who also want their children to be engineers to contact them for the needed direction and advice.

The Adansihemaa, Nana Amonimaa Dede II, who led other Queenmothers to teach participants on how to prepare local dishes, commended AngloGold for massively supporting and investing in women.

She touched on women’s invaluable contribution to national development and admonished participants to seize the opportunities provided by AngloGold through their women empowerment interventions to build their capacities to be economically independent.

From Frederick Danso Abeam, Obuasi

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