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Profile of Founder

Lordina Dramani Mahama is a former First Lady of the Republic of Ghana. She is a native of Bodom and Jema-Ampoma in the Nkoranza District of the Bono East Region of Ghana.

Mrs. Mahama’s zeal and capacity to effortlessly combine many roles, played a critical part in her ability to combine family life and her political duties in addition to effectively managing the Lordina Foundation.

Her objectives and the activities of her Foundation comprise the adoption and provision of essential items to seven (7) selected orphanages. She has through the Foundation facilitated the construction of an accommodation facility for toddlers at the Osu Children’s Home in Accra and the construction of a vocational and skills training institute at Gambaga for girls and women in the Gambaga witches camp.

Mrs. Mahama has also led the Foundation on medical outreach programmes across the country, donating badly needed hospital equipment to a large number of health facilities across the country.

The Lordina Foundation has also facilitated the award of scholarships to many needy but brilliant students to pursue their education.

Mrs Mahama’s fluency in English, Hausa, Dagbani and Twi, makes her an effective and articulate communicator to a wide range of audience.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Governance and Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra and a Master of Laws Degree in Business Law from the De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.

The former First Lady is also a certified marriage counsellor and in 2019 completed a counselling skills programme at the International Centre for Training and Development (ICTD) in Abu Dhabi.

She also holds a degree in hospitality from GIMPA and a certificate in Catering from the Flair Catering Services.

Lordina Mahama is a great cook, loves cooking, has great passion and loves to encourage, motivate, inspire, help and counsel.

As part of her many recognizable achievements, Lordina Mahama is a former President of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA) and also a former Premier HIV Ambassador for the UNAIDS Global Plan to Eliminate Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (eMTCT) and Keep Mothers Alive.

Other significant achievements of the former First Lady includes;

Her objectives and activities of her Foundation comprise the adoption and provision of essential items to seven selected orphanages, including facilitating the building of an accommodation for toddlers at the Osu Children’s Home in Accra.

In the last few years, she has through the Foundation undertaken medical outreaches throughout the country to support hospitals and health facilities with medical supplies. Several students have also benefited from scholarships from her Foundation.

Mrs Mahama’s fluency in English, Hausa, Dagbani and Twi fluently, makes her an effective and articulate communicator to a wide range of audience.