British Prime Minister hosts Freda Nyame, others at Downing Street to celebrate girls’ education & entrepreneurship

On Wednesday, August 28, UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson hosted Ms. Freda Nyame at a reception at Downing Street to celebrate the global achievements of girls in education and entrepreneurship.

Campaigners, teachers and young women were welcomed to Downing Street by the Prime Minister to celebrate the global achievements of girls in education and entrepreneurship.

Freda got the opportunity to interact with guests including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) campaigner Fahma Mohammed; Science Girl director Anna Zacharia; Holly Porter, founder of ‘Chicks with Bricks’ – a network connecting women in the construction industry; and Belinda Parmar, activist and founder of ‘The Empathy Business’ – a organisation which aims to encourage companies to encourage compassion towards their employees.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “This event was a fantastic opportunity to meet so many trailblazers in the world of education and empowerment for girls and women.We’ve just seen a terrific set of GCSE and A Level results – a testament to the hard graft of young people, their dedicated teachers and their families.

Girls are bagging the majority of the top grade 9 results at GCSE and narrowing the gap in subjects like physics and maths at A Level. I’m passionate about making sure girls everywhere get access to a good education – and that’s why I announced funding for 600,000 children to have the chance to go to school for the first time at the G7 summit last week.

I was tremendously inspired by the young women I’ve met and I’m confident their successes will encourage a new generation of female leaders.”

Freda Nyame is the founder and executive director of Inspiring Young Achievers Network (IYAN) Africa, an organization which seeks to change, nurture and transform the African youth to achieve their goals. Freda Nyame is a UK AID advocate , having been trained by VSO International, an Associate Fellow of The Royal Commonwealth Society and has been named as one of the 2016 Top 100 Youth Entrepreneurs by the SYENet-Student Youth Entrepreneurial Network, Named as one of the 50 Impacting Young Female Leaders in Africa by OneWorld Organisation in Cameroon with support from Cameroon StartUp Academy and Joss Magazine.

She was shortlisted among 30 Nominees for MTN Heroes of Change in Ghana in December 2016 celebrated as one of the 60 Young Achievers in Ghana by Coca-Cola, nominated for the Education Category of the 2017 and 2018- 40 under forty awards in Ghana, received the International Citizen Service Change Agent Award by Challenges Worldwide in Ghana during the ICS Celebration and Engagement (ICE) event in 2018, honoured as one of the Top 50 outstanding Ghanaians for 2018 in the education category by Future of Africa Awards and was recently honoured by Future of Ghana as one of the top 30 young pioneers for 2019.