Community engagement

Upon assumption of duty, I made it a point to go round all 15 constituencies in the Upper East Region and visited a lot of communities to sit among you and listen.

To hear what a leaflet could never capture. That’s how I’ve always understood this work: you show up, you listen, and you let that guide what you do next.

I’ve walked that road with you, community by community, across every single constituency in this region. That is not a promise I’m making, it’s a record I’ve already built. And if permitted the chance again, to keep building it with you.

The Women Organizer’s office should not be a luxurious place of comfort but a call to duty, and that’s exactly what we did together all these years.

Market engagement

Before the sun was fully up, I was already among you, the market women of the Upper East, together with our Constituency Women Organizers.

I didn’t go to the markets for cameras. Side by side with the Women Organizers in every constituency, we spoke about the NDC’s vision for this country and what it meant for women specifically.

I understood something simple: the women who wake before dawn to trade deserved a leader who met them where they stood, not one who waited for them to come to her. So together with our Constituency Women Organizers we carried that message to the markets ourselves, not just in one or two places but across all 15 constituencies in this region.

Voter sensitization

Voting right doesn’t start at the ballot box. It starts with a conversation on how to avoid spoilt ballots.

I carried that conversation to women in all 15 constituencies of the Upper East Region together with my gallant Constituency and Branch Women Organizers, and we patiently explained why every single vote matters.

This kind of region-wide commitment isn’t a political promise. It has already been lived and delivered.

This is the legacy and standard we established together!

Foodstuff support for all 15 Parliamentary Candidates during the 2024 elections

When I set out to support our then Parliamentary Candidates, now Members of Parliament, with foodstuff to aid in the election day preparations, I didn’t pick favourites and I didn’t stop at a few constituencies. I stood with all 15 PCs because unity in our beloved Upper East Region can’t be selective. It has to be complete or it isn’t unity at all.

That’s the standard I held myself to in my first term, and it’s the record I’m asking you to document.

Campus visitation

I didn’t just march with our women in the constituencies only. I also reached out to and included our student network (TEIN) in every decision, logistics, resources and activities.

Ahead of the 2024 elections, I went to our tertiary institutions myself, meeting students where they were, mobilizing and organizing them to be part of the rescue movement.

I didn’t do it alone. I marched side by side with the TEIN leadership, particularly our WOCOMs, campus after campus.

That wasn’t a one-woman photo opportunity. It was the Women’s Front and our tertiary structures moving as one, building and empowering the next generation of leadership before a single vote was cast.

Let’s complete the agenda together!

Electoral area visitations

The real test of leadership is not the podium. It’s at the polling stations.

In 2024, I went down to the electoral areas with our Branch and Constituency Women Organizers, the women who do the hardest work in this party. We went electoral area to electoral area across all 15 constituencies.

Our victory in December wasn’t built on a stage. It was built at the branch, by women many never see.

That’s the work I want to keep doing with you.

Distribution of soft drinks to party agents

During the 2024 voter registration exercise, I didn’t watch from afar.

I went to monitor the EC centres across all 15 constituencies and I stood with our agents and Women Organizers. I shared soft drinks to keep them going through the day.

My kind gesture was to tell every agent one thing: your work is seen and you are not alone.

My dear Women Organizers, that is the leadership I gave you on the ground. Win with Fawzia!

Provision of 200 desks for Kologo Primary

In 2025, I stepped out not as the Regional Women’s Organizer, but as a mother who couldn’t bear to see children lying on their stomachs to learn, or our widows going without the joy of celebrating Christmas.

I provided 200 sets of desks for Kologo Primary School, ensuring that every child from KG to Primary Six could sit up and learn.

I also provided bags of rice and fowls for 200 widows in Gowrie so they too could celebrate Christmas.

My dear Women Organizers, if this is what I did beyond my official role, imagine what we can achieve together when I have the opportunity to serve within it.

My nine clear policies for the TEIN Women Commissioners of the Upper East Region

Over the years, I have worked with past WOCOMs and together we have made valuable gains. My commitment is to sustain that progress and do even more.

I believe a well-capacity-built WOCOM is an asset to our party and an investment in its future. WOCOMs are not merely instruments for votes; they are a pool of potential, talent and leadership waiting to be harnessed.

That is what my #ProofNotPromises agenda stands for.

1. Women’s leadership and capacity building
2. Women’s entrepreneurship and economic empowerment
3. Women’s mentorship and career development
4. Women’s welfare and support initiative
5. Skills training and vocational empowerment
6. Girls’ education and young women’s development
7. Women’s health and well-being
8. Women in leadership and governance
9. Regional women’s networking and collaboration forum