Adrienne B. Johnson, Founder
Dr. Adrienne Booth Johnson founded and successfully launched the Wo Ye Bra pilot program in Greater Accra, Ghana, West Africa in 2017. It has a dual-purpose , to train women to become entrepreneurs who make and sell reusable sanitary pads, and to keep girls in school during their menstrual cycle. She provides all the resources and training for impoverished women to learn the trade of sewing. She provides each participant with a free sewing machine, fabric, supplies, and micro-funding, as well as marketing, sales training and financial education.
She is a Coca-Cola Company marketing executive who retired after 25 years of service. Dr. Johnson understands the need for women to have opportunity – as a young single mother, she learned perseverance. She succeeded in business, but she sees that women, particularly in Africa, don’t have the same advancement options. The Wo Ye Bra Program empowers women to become businesswomen but also helps keep girls in school who would otherwise stay home because of the lack of access to sanitary supplies during their period. Thus far, she has put over 100 women in business in Ghana and Sierra Leone, West Africa
Ellen Adu Baah, Vice President of Operations
Ellen Adu Baah is a Vice President of Operations for the Wo Ye Bra Program in Ghana. Her responsibilities as on-site coordination includes identifying the program participants, locating Clergy to host training at their churches, sourcing sewing machines, transportation for attendees, villages to source participants, and successful Ghanaian businesswoman who owns Elle’s Diaper Service shops throughout Africa. She is fluent in 5 of the Ghanaian languages and has travelled extensively throughout Africa, North America, Europe and the Middle East. Originally, Ellen hails from Kwahu-Nteso in the Eastern Region of Ghana but currently resides in Tema, the Greater Accra Area, where she is actively involved in her community outreaches.
Since 2017, she has been working for Infinity Global Empowerment (IGE), where she works as Director of Operations for the Wo Ye Bra Program. She is the mother of 3 children and married to a prominent Ghanaian businessman. A community advocate, she spends time with children in hosting her children’s birthday parties at orphanages as well as providing essential commodities that they may need. Her favorite quote is “Kindness is a baton in a relay race. When you receive it, you must pass it on.”