LAMISI FATA FOUNDATION
In many parts of northern Ghana, child marriages and abuses are widespread, unfortunately. Most girls marry against their will and become pregnant before they are physically, emotionally, and psychologically ready for motherhood.
Lamisi, a singer-songwriter, was raised in an era with other girls who were dropping out of school at the age of 12 in order to get married and have children. Despite the pressure, she was fortunate to have uneducated parents who still believed in the power and value of the importance of formal education.
Originally from Zebilla in the Bawku West District of Ghana’s Upper East Region, Lamisi climbed up the educational ladder and in the process, developed a passion to see the girl-child rise to the top equally as the boy-child and to reach higher for her goals. She now serves as a role model and a benefactor to many of these girls by providing material resources and sharing her experience to inspire and motivate them.
This situation of prioritizing male children in the northern regions of Ghana has always left the area behind and underdeveloped, in comparison to the southern parts of Ghana.
Originally from Zebilla in the Bawku West District of Ghana’s Upper East Region, Lamisi climbed up the educational ladder and in the process, developed a passion to see the girl-child rise to the top equally as the boy-child and to reach higher for her goals. She now serves as a role model and a benefactor to many of these girls by providing material resources and sharing her experience to inspire and motivate them.
This situation of prioritizing male children in the northern regions of Ghana has always left the area behind and underdeveloped, in comparison to the southern parts of Ghana.
Empowered to change this by the inspirational saying of James Kwegyir Aggrey a foremost Ghanaian educationis that goes: “The surest way to keep people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual but if you educate a woman, you educate a whole nation.”
Strongly moved by Mr. Aggrey’s vision, the Lamisi Music Foundation in its quest to Empower deprived girls to have equal access4 to education in northern Ghana has improved through the power of music as a tool for effecting positive change.
MISSION
Lamisi Music Foundation seeks to rekindle the use of performing arts (music & dance) to support the development and empowerment of the girl child in northern Ghana.
VISION
To overcome gender discrimination and ensure equal opportunities for both female and male children that can drive socio-economic growth in the society in northern Ghana primarily, and ultimately in Ghana as a whole.