Madam Grace Antwi Hayford, a baker at Kasoa, a peri-urban town in the Central Region, has been adjudged ‘The Mirror Model Mother’ for 2025.
Madam Hayford beat over 1000 mothers to become the ‘Model Mother’ by virtue of her resilience and relentless efforts in caring for her family and others in the face of adversity.
She was unveiled on Mother’s Day at a garden buffet organised by The Mirror, a weekly newspaper of the Graphic Communications Group Limited, in collaboration with Oak-Plaza Hotel.
The event, dubbed: “Mom-orable Mother’s Day Celebration”, recognised some Ghanaian mothers who played amazing roles in the lives of their families.
While the mothers ate, drunk and danced to the melodious tunes by the Lipstick Queens, an all-female band in Ghana, Madam Hayford shared her story on motherhood.
Speaking in Fante, the Model Mother narrated how she relocated from the Northern Region to Kasoa with her husband, who had then lost his job.
She started a bread business with the little money they had saved and had to borrow money from friends to augment her ‘capital’ and expand her business. She went through the struggles with their two sons.
With hard work and determination, the family built a bakery, which employed workers from Kasoa and surrounding towns, using some of the income to finance her children’s education. She helped other children through school so they could also take care of their parents and move out of poverty.
She encouraged upcoming mothers to emulate her example by striving to cater for their children and others, despite the challenges, to make society better. “Hard work pays,” she said.
Madam Doreen Hammond, Editor of The Mirror, said the paper had women as one of its targets and that was the reason it never missed the Mother’s Day celebration. She said mothers and mother-figures nurtured and guided children to make society a better place, hence the need to appreciate them.
Ms Abena Osei-Poku, Managing Director, Ecobank, whose speech was read on her behalf, said all mothers who balanced business and family, turned dreams into realities, and empowered others along the way made a profound impact on their family and deserved to be celebrated.
Source: GNA
