The Hard And Noble Work Towards Education Equity With Rosalinda Agana

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Science, Self-improvement, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Education

5.0 • 22 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Around 95% of girls in the most disadvantaged African rural communities never completed senior high school. Rosalinda Agana grew up in Northern Ghana and experienced the lack of access to quality education herself. But now, she is on a mission to build education equity on a global scale. Joining Corinna Bellizzi, she shares how she completed her education against great odds, got a scholarship through CAMFED Association, and is now giving back to her community through her not-for-profit organization. Rosalinda talks about her work to help young people get the education they deserve regardless of race, skin color, or social status. She also discusses how she teaches farmers adopt more sustainable farming systems and small business owners to eliminate the use of plastic packaging. About Rosalinda Agana:Rosalinda Agana grew up in Northern Ghana and completed her education against great odds. Selected to receive a CAMFED scholarship to study law, Rosalinda joined the pan-African CAMFED Association of women leaders. She is trained as a Learner Guide, delivering CAMFED’s self-development curriculum to marginalized students. At university, Rosalinda founded a non-profit organization to support teenage mothers with income-generating skills. In 2019, she started a climate-smart agriculture enterprise, providing employment for rural women, growing and processing peanuts, soya, and potatoes. A passionate youth advocate, Rosalinda’s platforms have included the Youth Diplomacy Summit in Accra, the Baobab Summit in Kigali, and the Youth Agriculture Summit in Brasilia. She is pursuing her Master’s degree in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University, USA. Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalinda-agana-14b713142/ Guest Website: https://camfed.org/rosalinda/ Guest Social:https://www.instagram.com/i_am_nefertiti / https://www.tiktok.com/@camfedsisterhood https://www.youtube.com/@camfedhttps://www.instagram.com/camfed/ Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! https://caremorebebetter.com Follow us on social and join the conversation! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMore.BeBetter/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Twitter: https://twitter.com/caremorebebetter Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/care-more-be-better Support Care More. Be Better: A Social Impact + Sustainability PodcastCare More Be Better answers only to our collective conscience and aims to put more good into the world. As a listener, reader, and subscriber you are part of this pod and this community and we are honored to have your support. If you can, please help finance the show: https://caremorebebetter.com/donate.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You might not know being here in the US, a lot of people have a lot of access to resources and information, but back home is very different.
0:08.4	And people could say, oh, you could just use your social media platform.
0:12.1	But that is not easy.
0:13.1	Not everyone back in these rural communities have access to phones, have access to televisions.
0:18.7	And in order to get all these to them, you need to be able to have that
0:22.6	platform or that space in which people can easily walk into to get access to this information.
0:28.6	So my most important aspect of my plan is to set up a center in which people can get information from
0:35.6	and we can also send people into the communities
0:38.2	to be able to help them set up their businesses,
0:41.6	especially the climate-smart agriculture aspects.
0:45.3	And then I can say that I really feel fulfilled.
0:48.4	So that's what I do in the next two to three years,
0:51.9	finish next year, go back home and start my project.
0:55.9	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact
1:02.1	of conscious companies and everyday heroes.
1:05.4	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in Planet before profit and personal gain.
1:10.2	You'll learn how you can make a difference.
1:12.6	Vote with your dollars and get involved today.
1:15.5	Here's your host, Karina Belizzi.
1:20.2	Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends.
1:22.4	I'm your host, Karina Belizzi.
1:25.1	I'd like to bring you into the Way back machine of sorts to an early episode of this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Corinna Bellizzi, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Corinna Bellizzi and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.