JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Aché and Mom in MIPAD spotlight

First mother-daughter duo to make Global Top 100 List

by

Guardian Media Limited
312 days ago
20240901

Aché Abra­hams

“My moth­er and I have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD (Most In­flu­en­tial Peo­ple of African De­scent) in sup­port of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ Decade Ded­i­cat­ed to Peo­ple of African De­scent.We were both recog­nised for two com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories. This is the first time a moth­er and daugh­ter have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD and thus marks a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion.

I was recog­nised un­der the cat­e­go­ry of ‘cul­ture and me­dia’ for the glob­al top 100 un­der 40 edi­tion, while my moth­er was recog­nised for the glob­al top 100 cre­atives edi­tion in 2021. We are both very proud to be rep­re­sent­ing T&T and the Caribbean re­gion in such an im­pact­ful space and are tru­ly grate­ful for the recog­ni­tion from MI­PAD and Mi­pa­di­ans glob­al­ly.

We will both be head­ing to New York in Sep­tem­ber to ac­cept my award and al­so par­take in the ac­tiv­i­ties hap­pen­ing dur­ing recog­ni­tion week. I am so ex­cit­ed and look­ing for­ward to be­ing part of many im­por­tant glob­al top­ics hap­pen­ing that week and al­so get­ting the chance to vis­it the Unit­ed Na­tions head­quar­ters, which has al­ways been a child­hood dream.”

Camille Selvon Abra­hams

“On hear­ing of Aché’s MI­PAD Award, I was ex­treme­ly ex­cit­ed for her, as I knew it would feed right in­to her de­sire to con­tin­ue her work on the world stage. My own ex­pe­ri­ence with the MI­PAD com­mu­ni­ty has shown me that it’s an in­cred­i­ble plat­form with a vast net­work of re­mark­able in­di­vid­u­als.

It opens doors to con­nec­tions across all walks of life, par­tic­u­lar­ly with­in Africa and the di­as­po­ra, of­fer­ing count­less op­por­tu­ni­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion and ex­change.The fact that we both re­ceived this award in dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories speaks vol­umes about the sig­nif­i­cance of Aché’s work.

I feel deeply ho­n­oured to be mak­ing his­to­ry along­side my daugh­ter, to be the first moth­er-daugh­ter team to re­ceive such a pres­ti­gious ac­co­lade and to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go to­geth­er on the world stage.”

In sup­port of the In­ter­na­tion­al Decade for Peo­ple of African De­scent, pro­claimed by the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion 68/237 and to be ob­served from 2015 to 2024, the Most In­flu­en­tial Peo­ple of African De­scent (MI­PAD) iden­ti­fies high achiev­ers of African de­scent in the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors from all around the world as a pro­gres­sive net­work of rel­e­vant ac­tors to join to­geth­er in the spir­it of recog­ni­tion, jus­tice, and de­vel­op­ment of Africa, its peo­ple on the con­ti­nent, and across its Di­as­po­ra.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored