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By Kwamina Tandoh/ Celestine Seyram Tsievor, GNA

Accra, April 16, GNA – CHILD and Associates, an Accra-based medical facility dedicated to the wellbeing of children and families, has launched activities for its 10th anniversary slated for July 7.

Among the activities include free immunisation of children at the centre’s premises in Accra on April 25 to April 30, to mark World Immunisation Week.

CHILD and Associates, through education, support, and medical services focuses on strengthening families and helping patients make informed decisions on their wellbeing.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dr Juliette M Tuakli a Pediatrician and the Chief Executive Officer of the organisation expressed the commitment of her outfit in providing top-notch childcare and maternal healthcare services for visitors to the centre.

She said in order to become a first class medical facility for not just children, parents and institutions, the centre has expanded its activities by establishing women’s health unit, toy library, first class pediatric clinic, public health, malaria prevention programme, behavioural health unit and a robust clinical training programme.

Dr Tuakili noted that CHILD and Associates has been working with a number of medical specialists in diverse fields in order to offer high quality medical care to children.

She explained that in this ‘era of throw away children’, she is being reminded daily of the inherent value each child has.

CHILD & Associates will be 10 years old this coming July, so we are starting the party early with events, surprises, gifts and as always our best service to you. Each week we will highlight a different health theme or message.  SO come in and be part of the festivities!!!

The African Union – Diaspora African -Forum (AU-DAF) has honored and recognized President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and several other African women, including the former the Chairperson of the Council of State (COS) in Liberia, Mrs. Ruth Sando Perry and Dr. Juliette Tuakli, as “Women of Excellence”.
According to a dispatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, the honor was bestowed on them during a special AU-DAF Women of Excellence Awards Banquet held on Friday, June 12, 2015.

Others who received the “Women of Excellence” Award included Saida Agrebi of the Pan African Parliament representing Tunisia; Mrs. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Resident Representative of the UNDP in Kenya; Dr. Arikana Chihombori, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Bell Family Medical Center in Tennessee, USA; Graca Machel of the Africa Progress Panel; and Justice Victoria Okobi, the first female non-lawyer to serve on the bench of the National Industrial Court.

Still others were Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of former President Rawlings of Ghana; Mrs. Salma Salifu, founder and CEO of Destiny Industries Limited in Ghana; Dr. Juliette Tuakli, Executive Board member of Mercy Ships international; Mrs. Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi; H.E. Mama Ngina Kenyatta, former First Lady of Kenya; Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela; and H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission among others.

President Sirleaf pointed out that there is no greater honor than being honored by your own and that was exactly what the women were doing at the honoring event. She extended her personal commendation to the rest of the honorees for their achievements and expressed that leadership responsibility for she and former President Joyce Banda is just the beginning for women’s leadership on the continent and the world at large and for greater movement of women that is surely coming, unstoppable, and irreversible. She said women, and many women, in the next ten years will be what she represents today.