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Building Girls of Today, into Leaders of Tomorrow

17/09/2026

Meet Muhana Ibrahim, one of our 2025 Aya Initiative alumni. 🤎✨

From growing in confidence, leadership and self-awareness through Aya, to continuing to volunteer and pour back into other girls through our Like Her Project, Muhana’s journey is one we’re incredibly proud of.

Now a final-year Medical Imaging Technology student at UDS, she continues to turn growth into impact. 💛

Keep shining, Muhana! Your AKAYA family is cheering you on. 🥹

14/09/2026

Take us back. 🥹

“You can’t be what you can’t see.”

One of the most powerful reminders from this year’s AKAYA Leadership x Wellness Summit was just how much access and exposure matter.

Several of our speakers reflected on the fact that, at the same age as many of the young women sitting in the room, they didn’t have spaces like this.

Spaces to meet women who looked like them and were leading across different industries.

Spaces to ask questions, build confidence, make connections and imagine bigger possibilities for their own lives.

And that’s exactly why we do what we do.

Because sometimes, all it takes is being in the right room, hearing someone else’s story and thinking:

“Maybe I could do that too.”

What an incredible day. What an incredible community. And what a privilege to create these spaces for our girls.

Can we do it all over again? 🥹✨

09/09/2026

Health literacy is empowerment. ❤️

Yesterday marked International Literacy Day and at AKAYA, we’re thinking beyond reading and writing. 📚

Because literacy can also mean having the knowledge to understand your body, recognise when something isn’t right, ask questions and make informed decisions about your health.

From menstrual and reproductive health to mental wellbeing, so much of our work with girls begins with one thing: access to the right information, delivered in a way they can understand.

We’ve seen firsthand what happens when a girl is given a safe space to ask the questions she may have been too embarrassed, afraid or simply never had the opportunity to ask.

Knowledge builds confidence.
Confidence supports better choices.
And informed girls are better equipped to advocate for themselves.

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07/09/2026

Our graphic designer is on leave, so Team AKAYA took matters into our own hands… 😭😂

The drawings may be debatable. The message is not.

It takes more than one thing to build a leader.

A girl’s health affects her education. Her confidence shapes how she uses her voice. Mentorship and role models influence what she believes is possible. Opportunity gives her somewhere to take that belief. And community reminds her that she doesn’t have to do it alone.

That’s why our work has always been about the whole girl.

Health. Education. Confidence. Mentorship. Opportunity. Community. Leadership. 💛

Because building the next generation of African female leaders takes more than telling girls they can lead.

It means building an ecosystem that gives them the opportunity to.

04/09/2026

“The woman I’m becoming…”

One year ago, they were completing the AKAYA Wellness Initiative themselves. This year, they came back.

They volunteered. They supported. They encouraged the new cohort. And they helped us bring the 2026 programme finale to life.

Watching our 2025 AWI alumni return reminded us that the impact of a programme shouldn’t end when the programme does.

We want to build a community where young women continue to grow, stay connected and, when the time comes, reach back for the women coming behind them.

We asked some of our alumni to complete one simple sentence:

“The woman I’m becoming…”
Their answers made us incredibly proud. 🥹

A year later, we can see that becoming in action.

Once an AKAYA girl, always an AKAYA girl. ✨

Sisterhood FutureLeaders Community

02/09/2026

From finding her voice to taking it to Harvard. 💜✨

Meet Ayoola Oshiyemi, a 2025 graduate of the AKAYA Wellness Initiative UK.

Throughout her journey with AKAYA, Ayoola grew in confidence, leadership and self-awareness, putting those skills into practice by pitching at Zoom’s London HQ and going on to co-lead the AKAYA Global Women’s Summit.

Now, as she begins her Master’s in Education Policy and Analysis at Harvard University, we couldn’t be prouder to spotlight how far she has come and where she is headed next. 🎓

This is what we love to see: young women taking what they gain through AKAYA into the next chapter of their lives. 🤎

Congratulations, Ayoola! Your AKAYA family is cheering you on. 🥹✨

25/08/2026

From conversations about menstrual health to mental health, our Like Her Project sessions in Ghana’s Northern Region were about equipping girls with the knowledge, confidence and safe spaces they deserve.

Led by Team AKAYA, with valuable contributions from our volunteers and UK medics, we created space for honest conversations, questions and learning around two areas that can have such a significant impact on a young girl’s wellbeing and education.

A huge thank you to BMA Giving for making this work possible and enabling us to take the Like Her Project further into communities in Northern Ghana. 🇬🇭

More highlights from an incredibly special intervention. ✨

19/08/2026

Today is World Humanitarian Day; a day to honour the people who show up for others.

There’s no better day to share where Like Her went this year. For the first time, AKAYA brought the Like Her Project to Northern Ghana, reaching 217 girls across Tolon and Kumbungu with menstrual health, reproductive rights and mental wellbeing education.

We planned for 200. 217 showed up. That tells you how deeply this support is needed.

Over three sessions, girls learned to understand their bodies, name what they were feeling, and know that struggling isn’t the same as being broken. Every girl went home with a hygiene kit to carry the lesson forward.

The shift we’re proudest of? Mental health. At the start, barely a girl or two would seek help when struggling. By the end, almost all of them would.

This work is only possible because of humanitarian and health workers who give their time, skill and heart. Today, we honour them; our team, our Aya Initiative alumni, our volunteers, and the UK and Ghanaian medics who shaped every session. And our thanks to BMA Giving, whose support made it possible.

Our first step into the North. Not our last. 🤍

📍 Tolon & Kumbungu Districts, Northern Region, Ghana

14/08/2026

Turns out we’ve been kinda chic this whole time 🤭🤎

12/08/2026

Happy International Youth Day! 🌍💚

At AKAYA, we believe young people are not just the leaders of tomorrow; they are leading, creating and driving change today.

Every day, we have the privilege of watching young women find their voices, build their confidence, develop new skills and turn their ideas into action. From Ghana to the UK and Kenya, their ambition continues to remind us why investing in young people matters.

Today, we celebrate every young person daring to dream bigger, speak louder, lead boldly and create a better future for their communities.

Empowering youth today, shaping a brighter tomorrow.

Happy from all of us at AKAYA!

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