After successfully completing her two months of trades training, she did one month of workplace experience learning with the Ghana Water Company Limited, in Tamale.
Fatima was convinced that she wanted to stay in the trades industry- Fast forward, her WASSCE results were released, and she made aggregate 10 (first class grade). She could have gone on to study Nursing as she once dreamed, but because of her background in plumbing. She decided to take Civil Engineering at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Kwame Nkrumah University for Science and Technology. Due to her results and trades background, she gained a full scholarship from the MasterCard Foundation for her four-year stay at the university.”
When the assessment team from MasterCard came to Tamale and they met me on the field, I was in my Alinea T-shirt and fully dressed in my PPEs. They couldn’t get over what I could do as a female plumber, and they promised to get in touch with the WEE-North team. I can’t thank Alinea and GAC enough for the lifelong skills I’ve acquired through the WEE-North Project.”
