She put smiles on the faces of many people who otherwise would have had no hope of survival.
She is Multimedia Group’s Gladys Afia Pokua Arthur who was on Friday crowned Media Personality of the year at the MTN Heroes of Change Season 5 event.
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Vim Lady as she is popularly called was nominated for the Special Awards category alongside the 10 finalists for this year.
Through her charity Organization, Vim Foundation, Afia also a news editor of Ghana’s number 1 radio station, Adom FM has paint 12 blocks of four basic schools in Kwahu in the Eastern region including a school built in 1917 but had not seen a new look for more than 25years.
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The Vim Foundation also painted a six-classroom block, which her foundation for Kumasi-Amenam in the Ashanti region.
In the course of her charitable work, the Vim Foundation donated school books to Jacobu Methodist Primary and Junior High School (JHS) in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region. It had an empty library until the gesture.
She said she chose Jacobu Methodist School as a way to honour her mother’s alma mater during her teenage days.
The Vim Foundation has also given out medical equipment and supplies to several health facilities.
“I am more overwhelmed by the response that people have shown to the recognition MTN has given us” she told JoyNews.
The Heroes of Change is an initiative by Telecommunication network, MTN. The scheme seeks to reward people who embark on projects or ventures to make a difference in the society.
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The Multimedia journalist who started from humble beginings, selling food by the street in Tema in the Greater Accra region paid tribute to her parents whom she said instilled in her the value of giving.
Her cash prize of 10,000 cedis, she said, will be used for a school project planned for a community in the Northern region.
CEO of MTN-Ghana, Selorm Adadevor, urged many more people to help improve and brighten lives of people wherever they find themselves.
He explained the MTN Heroes of Change is about “those who have institutionalized, structured and sustained their extraordinary selfless works.”
Meanwhile, 26-year-old innovator, Charles Ofori Antipem emerged the overall winner of Heroes of Change Season 5.
He walked away with GH¢100,000 to be invested in his changing lives project.
