Euphoria Africa pulled back the curtain on its biggest project yet at an intimate dinner Saturday [November 15] night at the Country Club.
The foundation’s 2025 flagship initiative targets three healthcare facilities that have been struggling with basic supplies and infrastructure for years—and this time, they’ve assembled the kind of power table that can actually make something happen.
The programme aims to support Agortor CHPS Compound, Lamptey Mills CHPS Compound, and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. These are places where mothers get sent home too early because there aren’t enough beds, where mothers give birth on the floor because delivery beds are outdated and uncomfortable to support childbirth, where newborns share beds with their mothers because cribs are in short supply, and where staff have nowhere to rest after a long day’s work.
Ghana’s maternal mortality rate sits at 234 deaths per 100,000 live births—more than three times the WHO’s target of 70.
The infant mortality rate is 30 per 1,000 births. In rural areas, only 1.9% of communities have access to hospitals. These aren’t just statistics. They’re mothers who bled out waiting for care. They’re babies who got infections from unsafe conditions.
The ambassador roster assembled Saturday read like a cross-section of Ghana’s most influential: Australian Ambassador and photographer Robert Owen-Jones, multiple award-winning actresses Joselyn Dumas and Nikki Samonas (who also serves as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador), philanthropist and politician Akosua Manu, African Fashion Foundation founder Roberta Annan, M.A. Sadat, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, tech and entertainment investor George Williams, Jamaica’s Cultural Ambassador Morris Sinclair, entrepreneur Chichi Yakubu, pan-African visionary artist Richard Okyere Mantey, Cybele Energy CEO Beatrice Tayui, multiple award-winning journalist and blogger Ameyaw Debrah, media personality Blac Volta, and serial entrepreneur and wine connoisseur Kodjo Tatavi.
Unable to attend but equally committed to the cause are music executive D-Black, fashion designer Lauren Couture, Gifty Dumelo ESQ, and actresses Zynelle Zuh and Benedicta Gafah; all of whom have pledged their support as ambassadors.
Each person at that table has seen the crisis firsthand; whether in their constituencies, their communities, or through their work. They committed not just to showing up for photo ops, but to mobilizing their networks, their platforms, and their resources.
The initiative brings hospital beds, baby cribs, diapers, feeding bottles, and essential medical equipment to facilities that have been making do without them for far too long. The big fundraising push happens November 29 at Subtle Class, with Adina and Efya performing.
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