{"id":1142475,"date":"2022-07-05T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/fashion-taken-to-another-level-as-merck-foundation-presents-awards-to-winners-launches-tv-shows-photos-fashion\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:13:51","slug":"fashion-taken-to-another-level-as-merck-foundation-presents-awards-to-winners-launches-tv-shows-photos-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/fashion-taken-to-another-level-as-merck-foundation-presents-awards-to-winners-launches-tv-shows-photos-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Taken To Another Level As Merck Foundation Presents Awards To Winners&#8230;Launches TV Shows (PHOTOS) | Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The official launch of the \u201cOur Africa by Merck Foundation\u201d and \u201cBecause I want to Be\u201d TV programs took place on Sunday, 3rd July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBecause I want to Be\u201d TV program was initiated by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo. It is a platform used to reintegrate girls who drop out of school back into the classroom or assisted to acquire an income-generating skill.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Our Africa TV show&#8221; on the other hand, was conceptualized, directed, produced and co-hosted by Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch which was held at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Dr Kelej said her aim for the show was to reach a large audience with messages that concern women&#8217;s health and wellbeing. The TV show, therefore, aims at being the voice of the voiceless and breaking the silence about many critical and sensitive social and health issues in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the programme were the Merck Foundation 2021 media awards ceremony and the launch of Merck Foundation Diabetes song.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the awards exhibited their designs which all had a story to tell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some of the pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/683892561_592415.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1021\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh\/\/<span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"accec9cfcfcdecdcc9cdcfc9cac1c3c2c0c5c2c982cfc3c1\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official launch of the \u201cOur Africa by Merck Foundation\u201d and \u201cBecause I want to Be\u201d TV programs took place on Sunday, 3rd July 2022. The \u201cBecause I want to Be\u201d TV program was initiated by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo. It is a platform used to reintegrate girls who drop out of school back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[365,3635,402,1800,19782,809,1346,962,19783],"class_list":["post-1142475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-fashion","tag-foundation","tag-level","tag-merck","tag-photos","tag-presents","tag-shows","tag-winners-launches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}