Equality for women has always been a passion for Alima Sagito Saeed. After finishing school, she went straight to university to study development and has worked in the field ever since, with one aim: to improve gender equality and create better lives for women in her home country of Ghana.
Alima is now the Executive Director of women’s organisation Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA) in northern Ghana. “I thought why not put these women together and mobilise them to harness the potential they have shown?” Alima said. “That is how I became a women leader: by using my own experiences to encourage women to work together.”
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