About Us

n 2008, during a church program, Pastor William Burckson addressed about 100 university students on the importance of discovering one’s purpose. His message ignited a fire within me—a moment that led me to reflect deeply on my own calling. At the time, I was a Chemistry student at the University of Ghana, Legon, and I had been increasingly troubled by reports of untimely deaths in my beloved village of Ve Deme in the Volta Region of Ghana.

These reports weighed heavily on my heart, particularly because many of the deaths involved women. Compelled to understand the cause, I returned to my village shortly after the program. During my visit, I discovered that several of the women who had passed away had been battling fibroid, a condition that appeared to be taking a severe toll on their health and lives.

Driven by this newfound sense of purpose, I sought guidance from one of my lecturers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ghana, Dr. Kweku Kyeremeh (now Professor Kweku Kyeremeh). I presented to him an idea to scientifically investigate a local medicinal plant, Ageratum conyzoides, which my uncle had been using to treat some women suffering from fibroid in our village. He graciously agreed to supervise the study, which ultimately became my final-year research project.