Rebecca Foundation will embrace more girls – First Lady

The Rebecca Foundation has announced the expansion of its social intervention programmes to enhance girls’ education and gender equality. Executive Director of the foundation and First Lady of Ghana, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo said initiatives like ‘Learning to read, Reading to learn’, ‘Because I Want to Be’ and ‘Terema’ have had a positive impact […]

Big relief for health institutions as first lady makes donations

Heads and representatives of a number of health institutions, constituencies and Municipal Assemblies yesterday left the Office of the First Lady of the Republic, H.E. Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo with delight and relief after being presented with assorted hospital equipment for their various facilities. The donations follows requests made by these institutions to the […]

13,802 pregnant women contract HIV in 2018, First Lady launches campaign to fight mother-to-child transmission

Statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicate that 13,802 pregnant women contracted Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2018. This represents 1.6% of the 864,266 pregnant women who were tested for the disease. 48% HIV-exposed infants screened As at September 2018, Ghana had screened 48% of all HIV-exposed infants (HEI), with 5% being HIV positive. […]

Rebecca Foundation must return every pesewas they took from NAM1 to Menzgold customers-NDC

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the first lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo must return every single pesewa her foundation received from embattled Chief Executive Officer of gold trading firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM1. National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi says what customers of the distressed company wants now […]

 First Lady donates to three child-focused institutions in Eastern and Central Regions

The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has today donated food items and other household essentials to three child-care institutions across the country. The beneficiary institutions are the Mother care Orphanage, the Asiakwa SOS Village and the Kyebi School for the deaf, located in the Gomoa Central of the Central and East Akim Districts of Eastern Regions […]

First Lady donates to Princess Marie Louise Hospital, wish mothers and children a memorable yueltide

First Lady of the Republic of Ghana and Founder of The Rebecca Foundation, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has joined staff and patients of the Princess Marie Louise Hospital to celebrate their End of Year Get-together at the Hospital premises, in Accra. Mrs. Akufo-Addo first visited the hospital’s wards where she interacted with some staff as well […]

CR: First lady commissions new obstetrics & gynaecology centre and Mothers’ hostel at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has commissioned two massive projects at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in the Central Regional capital. The state of the art projects are the Anokye Yeboah Mothers’ Hostel and an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Emergency Centre. Built by a philanthropist, Mr. Gustav Anokye-Yeboah, the gesture, according to the First Lady […]

Martin Amidu must investigate First lady for collecting gifts from Startimes-General Mosquito

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia is asking the special prosecutor, Martin Amidu to immediately launch investigations into the sports kits gift that was given to the Rebecca Foundation by Chinese firm Startimes. The first lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo who is the founder of the Rebecca Foundation a few […]