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About Us
LYF Leads Africa provides a safe and empowering community for young women to develop practical life skills and address challenges with confidence. We provide Self-Love and Leadership coaching, counseling and workshops through with awareness and an experienced lense . The organisation’s leaders Keyonna Monroe and Isobel Afful-Mensah have extensive global experience working with vulnerable women/survivors, consulting businesses, managing personnel, digital marketing and nurturing young potential leaders. Our current focus will be geared towards Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, and the US.
Problem We Recognize
Young African women are inherently ambitious, but this ambition is often truncated due to:
Poverty and disease, in particular in the rural areas which disproportionally affects the girl child.
Reduced access to education especially after basic primary education especially for the girl child.
Lack of confidence, due to societal norms requiring women to limit their ambition to traditional roles.
Cultural/traditional impositions, such as early child marriage.
Lack of representation at senior leadership levels – although 24.3% of African board seats are held by women, this is still below the global average (Brookings Institution)
Higher risk of gender-based violence (1 in 3 women) and ensuing emotional repercussion of experiencing violence/abuse)
