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| UEW Undergraduate, Ms. Hawa Alidu |
A final year Art Education undergraduate student of the
University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ms. Hawa Alidu is bringing to bear her
entrepreneurship talent to the world.
Ms. Hawa Alidu is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Miss
Muslimah Ghana, an initiative that seeks to promote modesty in Islam. She owns
a printing and embroidery company, Cuhaiz Multimedia which is located at
Ablekumah Fanmilk in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. She is also the CEO of
Lead Youth Empowerment Network (LEYEN), a Non-Governmental Organisation with
the mission of inspiring hope in lives through humanitarian activities and
transformational impacts.
As the UEW Students’ Representative Council/National Union of
Ghana Students Women’s Commissioner and the 2019 Verna Miss Peace Ambassador,
she in collaboration with the UEW Gender Mainstreaming Directorate organised a series
of seminars and conferences for women in student leadership. She is the initiator
of an award scheme (She Essence Awards) which seeks to acknowledge and honour
hard-working and deserving women in tertiary institutions.
Ms. Hawa Alidu, disclosed in an interview with the UEW Media
Relations outfit that even though she is gifted with these skills, she has a passion
for teaching and would want to be a professional teacher in future.
“I have a passion for teaching thus, when I am done with my
first degree, I would love to pursue my Master’s and then apply for
lectureship. I love everything about teaching; it’s a passion, something I
wanted to do since I was a child. So, no matter how industrious I would be in
championing the course of entrepreneurship, I am still going to be a teacher
and I want to be a professional one,” she affirmed.
The MTN Ghana Bright Scholar commended UEW Management for
putting in place stringent measures to protect staff and students from the
Covid-19 pandemic and the successful completion of academic work online using
UEW’s Learning Management Systems (LMS) during the just ended semester.
“I am so proud of my school because Management always does
their best just for the comfort of students. Our school did the best, looking
at how Management was able to handle these whole online academic activities. It
was amazing. We were in the house and we thought we could have this online
class as part of our regular sessions. Management is doing great and we are
proud of them. They should keep making us proud and we want them to keep up
with the good work,” she extolled.
Ms. Hawa Alidu encouraged her colleague, undergraduate
students, to challenge themselves by ensuring that they develop themselves and are
unique in all that they do. She advised them to make good use of any
opportunity that might come their way.
“Let’s not always be looking into one box. Try to fish out
for opportunities and when the opportunity comes your way no matter what, try
out something. You don’t know what will come out of that very opportunity. So,
wherever you find yourself, whether it is something big or small you think you
can startup with, startup anyhow. Don’t always wait for opportunity but rather
look for opportunities. Stop listening to negative comments, take up the risk and
you’ll surely get to wherever you want to get to,” she admonished.
