Exclusive Events Ghana Ltd, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture
and the Ghana60YearsOn Planning Committee, have announced the date for the official
launch for this year’s edition.
The 60 th anniversary of the pageant, dubbed, ‘MissGhana60YearsOn’ –is slated for
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra.
This year marks 60 years since Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah initiated the pageant in
1957 – where Monica Amekoafia from then Trans Volta Togoland (Volta Region) won the
pageant to become the first ever Miss Ghana.
Under the Miss Ghana Foundation, the Miss Ghana pageant has over the years carved an
impressive niche as that pageant that generates awareness to various socio-economic
problems, collaborates with government institutions and corporate firms in sending relief
to various deserving communities across the country.
It has actively been involved in providing meaningful and lasting solutions to most of the
social interventions embarked on. One of the major projects undertaken by the Miss Ghana
Foundation, among many others is the Don Bosco Street Child Project; where the
Foundation aided in acquiring a 10-acre land and established a hostel where thousands of
street children are given social and technical training. The land also hosts the only
functioning Child Protection Centre in Ghana.
In line with the core objectives of the Foundation, the Miss Ghana Organization has always
been choosing personalities who best fit the agenda.
In order to win the bragging rights to be called ‘Miss Ghana’, one must be primed, have
leadership and strategic skills, possess the passion to help others and must be ready at all
times to confidently represent the nation with pride.
Miss Ghana 60YearsOn is not all about the glitz, ‘glam’ and the many privileges that come
with the crown. It comes with an ambassadorial role that involves lots of work – in joining
other enterprising ladies to bring change to communities.
The role of the Queen is also to serve as a role model who aids in generating support for the
under-privileged in societies to get access to quality education, health and good standard of
living.
As an Ambassador, the Queen must be in a position to serve as a source of inspiration, a
beacon of hope and a voice for girls and young women across the country.
It is imperative to note that the main focus of the Miss Ghana brand has and will always be
the various social intervention projects the foundation embarks on.

As the organization marks its 60th anniversary, the focus is to have the ‘Miss
Ghana60YearOn’ titleholder; her runners-up and regional queens dedicate a minimum of
one year of service full of commitment, diligence, loyalty and passion – in line with
extending social intervention programmes across the country.