About me:

We are influenced by life’s experiences, which in turn causes us to make certain career choices. I do believe this, but my passion and interest in public service is something that has always come naturally to me. Every choice I have made towards building myself up and my career path has been deliberate and focused on impacting my community.

I am Worlali Atsu and an international student from Ghana where I took undergraduate studies in Business Administration. Within this period, I had the opportunity to become President of the Association of Human Resource Students (ARMS) for an unprecedented two consecutive years. During my tenure, I created a program for organizing educational and industrial trips for all members and non-members to do field visits to companies and gain some real-world experience about the practicality of what we studied at lectures. Some of the essential trips included visits to multinational companies like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. We met with the management teams, toured facilities, and gained insights into how to run large complex organizations effectively. This has now become an important tradition for my successors and the HR program.

After I graduated, I took on a role with the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly, the local government body for a less developed area outside of Accra, Ghana’s capital. This was part of the Ghana National Service program. It was a tough challenge because most of the people I had to engage with were illiterates, made up of food vendors and local traders who spoke little or no English. My team was in charge of ensuring that all traders and food vendors in the Ashaiman market had proper health certificates and authorization permits to do business at that market. To enable us to achieve this, we held a two-day educational forum to educate them on the benefits of participating in the registration and health screening exercise. Within a week, all traders and vendors had gone through the registration and screening process and were subsequently given their certificates. Even in this small exercise, I could feel the positive impact of being a public servant on people’s lives.

After my National service, I moved on to work for one of the biggest and most reputable non-profit organizations in West Africa, FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, based just outside of Accra. The Foundation of Orthopedic and Complex Spine (FOCOS) was founded in New York about 20 years ago to provide advocacy, fund, and treat cases of severe spinal deformities in children throughout Africa. I worked as an Operations Assistant, supporting both the Human Resources and Development departments.

I want to help the underprivileged by being a solid public servant capable of creating and implementing policies and programs which will improve their lives.