Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo is the First Lady of Ghana as the wife of President Nana Akufo-Addo, 5th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana. She’s one of the prominent women in Ghana.
Rebecca Early Life
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akuffo- Addo was born Rebecca Naa Okaikor Griffiths-Randolph. She was born on March 12 1951 in Ghana. She is the daughter of Frances Phillipina Griffiths Randolph and Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths Randolph who was the speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.
Rebecca Education
She had her basic education at Achimota Primary School and Wesley Grammar school, She then went to Government Secretarial School where Rebecca qualified as a Secretary.
Rebecca Career
Ghana’s first lady Rebecca started working at the Merchant Bank in Ghana after she qualified as a Secretary and later worked as a legal secretary for Clifford Chance, a multinational law firm in the United Kingdom. Rebecca Akufo is a founding member and chairperson of the charity, Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation founded in 2005. This foundation supports the national effort to reduce malarial infections in infants and young children.
She founded the Rebecca Akufo-Addo foundation, a non-governmental organization to enhance efforts of government amongst Ghanaian women and children.
In November 2017, the Rebecca foundation signed a deal with Licang District Experimental School in Qingdao, China.
In January 2020, the foundation’s women empowerment program, the Terema Women’s Empowerment Initiative, in conjunction with the National Board for Small Scale Industries, trained women in soap making.
In February 2020, the Rebecca Foundation, through the “Enhancing the Youth through Education and Health (EYEH) Soup Kitchen” project, made a donation of assorted food items worth about GH¢15,000 to some street children in Accra.
Rebecca Husband and Children
Rebecca is married to Ghana’s current president H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa and they are blessed with 5 beautiful daughters namely; Gyankroma Akuffo- Addo, Edwina Nana Dokua Akuffo- Addo, Valerie Obaaze, Andriana Dukua Akuffo- Addo, and Yeboakua Akuffo- Addo.
Rebecca Awards and Honours
She has won awards and honors like; Nutrition Champion by The African Leaders For Nutrition, Excellence in Empowering Women and Children Awards, and being named among the Inaugural list of 100 most influential African Women in 2019.
Rebecca Net Worth
It is estimated that the first lady of Ghana has a net worth of $5 million.
