Belinda Ansomaa Okomeng

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Belinda Ansomaa Okomeng aspires to be an accomplished engineer which inspired her to study Biomedical Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar at Arizona State University where she plans to obtain her master’s degree and make her aspirations a reality. She is also hoping to do research work in tissue engineering. She is disciplined, diligent, selfless and desires to make an impact on the youth and her country. She has engaged in many volunteer services such as missions to less privileged towns and villages surrounding Cape Coast and educating them on children’s rights as well as donating some items such as a water storage for the village. She is a transformational leader as well who introduces positive changes wherever she finds herself. She was a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society Trade and Technology club that seeks to equip its members with innovative ideas, creativity, skills and knowledge for the field and designing several projects. She is passionate about achieving her vision of making quality health care accessible to everyone in her community and hopes to create the awareness that ailments and disabilities should not be an impediment to a successful and normal life. As such, she has gained experiences from interning at the 37 Military Hospital and hopes to gain much more skills and knowledge to make her vision a reality.