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Friday, June 5, 2015

ONCE UPON A TIME, A STAR GOES TO WORK!

On Saturday 27th September 2014, I joined thousands of Ghanaians and other Africans across the United Kingdom who thronged the plush Troxy in London to witness the 2014 edition of the most prestigious African beauty pageant show in Europe, Miss Ghana UK.  

As promised by the organizers, premier Ghanaian international event company, Akwaaba UK, the night came with the usual pomp and pageantry the event has become known for with a host of celebrities and prominent personalities within the African community in attendance.

After about five rounds of exciting yet stiff competition between sixteen young and beautiful ladies of Ghanaian descent, then nineteen year old Miss Eloise Nana Yaa Anima Dickens who appeared to be the crowd’s favourite was eventually crowned as Miss Ghana UK 2014.

A week ago, I met up with Miss Eloise Dickens at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra to discuss a project she was in the country to undertake under the auspices of the Miss Ghana UK Foundation, the Corporate Social Investment arm of the Miss Ghana UK brand.

Our discourse ranged from her role as an ambassador for the Miss Ghana UK Foundation and reign as the Miss Ghana UK 2014 queen, Reading Clinics in Ghana and her tenure of office as President of the African Caribbean Society at her university.

A second year law student of the University of Essex, Eloise spoke confidently about her passion to study the law with great insight, having adopted a requisite strategy to become one of the successful lawyers of her era. She also couldn’t hide her desire to become a change agent in the African diaspora community knowing the challenges Africans in the diaspora are confronted with.  

According to her, “the key principles guiding my reign as Miss Ghana UK 2014 are philanthropy and volunteerism. Over the period, I have been hugely involved in the Sickle cell awareness campaign in various communities across the United Kingdom as well as inspiring and encouraging under privileged youth across the United Kingdom.

In addition, I’m also passionate about partnering with various organizations both in Ghana and the United Kingdom to provide opportunities for young people to unearth their God given talents and abilities, realizing their dreams and aspirations in life and also creating awareness about the essence of empowering the girl child”. 

As part of her project in Ghana, Eloise held meetings with key stakeholders within the Ghanaian educational sector to discuss ways of enhancing the standards of education in the country through partnerships. With the members of her team, she is also organizing reading clinics in a list of schools within Accra in addition to talk sessions with students from selected schools. The team also visited the Royal Seed Orphanage at Kosoa in the Central Region where they engaged the children in a serious of fun yet educative activities before presenting various learning materials, food items and clothes to the management of the orphanage.


As we brought our conversation to an end, one thing that was obvious was Eloise’s zeal and passion to change the world around her and use the Miss Ghana UK crown to affect the lives of several deprived people within her society.
 

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