Anthoinette's Dream for Empowerment
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Meeting Anthoinette is meeting someone who radiates positivity, kindness and unbreakable determination. To many in Ghana – students, young girls, community members of all ages, and Peace Corps Volunteers – Anthoinette is family and a role model.
Anthoinette is an inspiration in every sense of the word. A true selfless hero dedicating herself to those around her. She bridges the cultural gap of PCV’s and makes them feel like home in remote areas of a foreign country and culture. She independently led community initiatives that were later adopted by the Government of Ghana due to their effectiveness on topics of poverty, community hygiene and empowerment. She identified, tracked and led a police force in reprimanding an international human trafficking ring. She has moved entire audiences to tears with her impassioned rhetoric on what it means to fight for justice. The list goes on.
She has done all of this 1. as a teenager 2. despite being on her own since age 14. Anthoinette has experienced hardship most of us couldn’t truly imagine. She lost both her parents within one month of each other and her big brother, her remaining rock and protector on Christmas day that very year. She experienced life as an orphaned 14 year old girl in an area where justice is unknown to that population. So many times Anthoinette could have given up, found it not worth it, but instead she dedicated herself to bringing justice to those 14 year old girls, to women, to everyone suffering without a voice. Anthoinette has spent every day of her life fighting to be that voice.
She gained skills and found jobs to put herself through school, to find housing, to put food on her plate, and all the while she placed atop her class with a smile wider than the hole she felt underneath. You would never have known what was behind that cheek to cheek smile and laugh. She acted as the rock to so many while all the while didn’t have a rock of her own.
To say Anthoinette is one in a million is quite literally an understatement. Not simply what she has overcome and who she is but statistically to be currently studying in America given where she came from. Yet here she is, persevering and overcoming all odds as she always does.
Anthoinette started her first semester at Glendale Community College February 2018. She has since transferred to Cottey College, an all-girls school in Missouri where she is pursuing a double major of international studies and criminology in pursuit of her her ultimate goal of attaining a law degree, returning to Ghana and representing those women and girls who remain unrepresented.
In America, there was a time where Anthoinette’s daily commute was 7 hours every day. She continued on without a complaint. The discriminatory rejections she has faced in America are too many to count and probably too many for her to say, yet here she is on track to graduate in Spring 2021 (as a possibility) or Winter 2021 (as a probability).
Given everything she has done for those around her, it only seems right to help her out in return. If enough of us gather together, we could make these last semesters the education she has always dreamed of and always deserved.
In Ghana, it is said it takes a village to raise a child. We are hoping with circulation of this gofundme we can create our own village, our own community of support and raise funds to help Anthoinette succeed. She has given so much to others even in times when she has had nothing of her own; we are now trying to funnel that same kindness and support Anthoinette has shown others back to her. The campaign manager is Jacob Foss, from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He met Anthoinette in Ghana during his Peace Corps service. All donations will be used to cover school related expenses including tuition, books, school supplies, transportation to school and living needs. Funds will be transferred to her bank account. Thank you so much for your consideration, your kindness has a huge impact on this incredible young woman's life and the countless lives she will touch throughout her journey.
Anthoinette is an inspiration in every sense of the word. A true selfless hero dedicating herself to those around her. She bridges the cultural gap of PCV’s and makes them feel like home in remote areas of a foreign country and culture. She independently led community initiatives that were later adopted by the Government of Ghana due to their effectiveness on topics of poverty, community hygiene and empowerment. She identified, tracked and led a police force in reprimanding an international human trafficking ring. She has moved entire audiences to tears with her impassioned rhetoric on what it means to fight for justice. The list goes on.
She has done all of this 1. as a teenager 2. despite being on her own since age 14. Anthoinette has experienced hardship most of us couldn’t truly imagine. She lost both her parents within one month of each other and her big brother, her remaining rock and protector on Christmas day that very year. She experienced life as an orphaned 14 year old girl in an area where justice is unknown to that population. So many times Anthoinette could have given up, found it not worth it, but instead she dedicated herself to bringing justice to those 14 year old girls, to women, to everyone suffering without a voice. Anthoinette has spent every day of her life fighting to be that voice.
She gained skills and found jobs to put herself through school, to find housing, to put food on her plate, and all the while she placed atop her class with a smile wider than the hole she felt underneath. You would never have known what was behind that cheek to cheek smile and laugh. She acted as the rock to so many while all the while didn’t have a rock of her own.
To say Anthoinette is one in a million is quite literally an understatement. Not simply what she has overcome and who she is but statistically to be currently studying in America given where she came from. Yet here she is, persevering and overcoming all odds as she always does.
Anthoinette started her first semester at Glendale Community College February 2018. She has since transferred to Cottey College, an all-girls school in Missouri where she is pursuing a double major of international studies and criminology in pursuit of her her ultimate goal of attaining a law degree, returning to Ghana and representing those women and girls who remain unrepresented.
In America, there was a time where Anthoinette’s daily commute was 7 hours every day. She continued on without a complaint. The discriminatory rejections she has faced in America are too many to count and probably too many for her to say, yet here she is on track to graduate in Spring 2021 (as a possibility) or Winter 2021 (as a probability).
Given everything she has done for those around her, it only seems right to help her out in return. If enough of us gather together, we could make these last semesters the education she has always dreamed of and always deserved.
In Ghana, it is said it takes a village to raise a child. We are hoping with circulation of this gofundme we can create our own village, our own community of support and raise funds to help Anthoinette succeed. She has given so much to others even in times when she has had nothing of her own; we are now trying to funnel that same kindness and support Anthoinette has shown others back to her. The campaign manager is Jacob Foss, from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He met Anthoinette in Ghana during his Peace Corps service. All donations will be used to cover school related expenses including tuition, books, school supplies, transportation to school and living needs. Funds will be transferred to her bank account. Thank you so much for your consideration, your kindness has a huge impact on this incredible young woman's life and the countless lives she will touch throughout her journey.
Organizer
Jacob Foss
Organizer
Eden Prairie, MN
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