Damian Avevor

Damian Avevor is an award-winning Ghanaian journalist. He is the supervising editor of newswatchgh.com, a Ghanaian interfaith online media organization that reports on religion and social development. He formerly worked with Ghana's national Catholic weekly, The Catholic Standard, for 17 years as a reporter, senior reporter and chief reporter and was its first news editor. He contributes stories to Catholic News Service and Global Sisters Report. He is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association, an affiliate member of the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana, and an executive member of the Catholic Association of Media Practitioners, Ghana.

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Young ladies undergo dress-making training at the Mater Ecclesiae Skills Training Centre at Kwaekese, in the Vicariate of Donkorkrom, in the Afram Plains of Ghana. (Damian Avevor)

Mary Mother of the Church Sisters in Ghana empower young women to be self-reliant

Mater Ecclesiae Skills Training Centre aims to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the growing number of female school dropouts and teenage mothers in the area by providing training for employable skills.

Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus Sr. Emmanuel Dakurah (holding camera), Sisters of Mary Immaculate Sr. Juliana Atuuna, Daughters of the Most Holy Trinity Sr. Patricia Akoto, and Sisters of Mary Immaculate Sr. Gloria Duongnaa, practice using a camera at a training session May 9 at Santasi in Ghana's Kumasi Archdiocese. (Newswatchgh.com/Damian Avevor)

Media training in Ghana empowers sisters to tell their stories

In Ghana 20 Catholic sisters from 10 congregations gathered to receive media, communication and networking training, to enable them to tell and publish their own stories.

Mary Immaculate Sr. Stephany Ayomah, left, and Daughter of Mary Mother of Mercy Sr. Agatha Chiamaka, a midwife at Good Shepherd Health Centre at Tuna in the Damongo Diocese, demonstrate how to use flipcharts during one of a June trainings in Tamale, Ghana. (Courtesy of Francis Monnie)

Sisters in Northern Ghana engage in early child development care

The Integrated Mother and Babies Course, an initiative by the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious - Ghana, trains sisters and health care volunteers to address the welfare of infants and toddlers, and promote maternal mental health.

Sisters in Africa debunk myths and educate people to get the COVID-19 vaccine

In Africa, there is rampant misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. To save lives amid the pandemic, Catholic sisters have been working to educate and encourage people to get vaccinated as the best means to fight the virus.

Education is key to empowering women, says Ghanaian nun-doctor

Equal access to education is the only means by which women can get into and sustain leadership positions in society, said a Ghanaian nun and medical doctor.

Children with disabilities may face stigma, but nun encourages parents

Anyone who mocks disabled children is mocking God, Sr. Olivia Umoh said.