Cynthia Mawuli

• Work as a disability support worker supporting adults and children with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges navigate their daily activities.

• Collaborate with health care professionals to implement effective client treatment plans.

• Write comprehensive reports to aid health workers in their overall assessment of their key performance indicators.

• Administer medication to clients at the right times and record changes for prompt actions to be taken.

• Help clients create and adhere to budgets by promoting disciplined spending characteristics.

• Designed and developed flagship programs such as ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Project’ targeted at children considered obese. Employed weekly physical exercise routines with funding from patrons to encourage parents and children to participate in physical exercises.

• Developed strategies to prevent teenage pregnancy through a community approach known as ‘Theater for Development’. As a team we developed drama scripts, poems, and dance choreography scripts from the perspectives of the inhabitants themselves to address and solve the problem.

• Served as Dance and Physical Education teacher at schools in impoverished communities the NGO worked at.

• Supervised all team members working with the children and youth.

▪ Acted as lead researcher on projects on indigenous knowledge systems and cultural heritage in Hungary and Ghana for individuals and research institutions.

▪ Developed and maintained three databases: Children Developmental Challenges; Aging and Elderly Physical Well-being; and Health and Social Interventions, in support of academic research. I led research on these projects in three research communities/locations in Ghana.

▪ Provided consultation to researchers and NGOs that worked in any of the three listed projects.

▪ Developed qualitative conceptual models for community impact analysis.