It all started two years ago in fulfillment of her dream and since then, there has been no turning back.
Through her Tina Reports on YouTube, she tells the untold stories in rural Ghana, and for the past two years, she has told compelling stories in rural areas that were seemingly totally forgotten.
For years, Ernestina Muulikaa, has facilitated social change, developmentand impacted many lives.Also, extending a hand to the less privileged and marginalised in society as a core value.
Sharing her story with The Spectator, she said “I feel proud of myself, without partnership or support, I have applied whatever I learnt as Development Communication student to pursue my dreams of impacting the downtrodden positively.”
According to her, on Ocotber 16, 2019, she woke up one day and told her cousin, a cameraman, to follow her to the Northern Region, after she had recuperated from a terrible accident.
By so doing, she decided to put spotlight on those pitiable condition and serve them to the best of her ability, ie to serve humanity.
Background
Tina, as she is affectionately called was born in Ahafo Hwidiem, in the Ahafo Region of Ghana.
She is a Dagao (Dagarti), who hails from Upper West Region, her mother, Madam Jacqueline Muulikaa, a trader hails from Jirapa, and her father, Mr.John Muulikaa a former Principal Accountant at St.Elizabeth Catholic Hospital at Hwediem, is a native of Lawra.
Tina has four siblings, two boys and two girls.
Education
Ernestina Muulikaa started her educational journey from Ola Preparatory School at Hwidiem, and continued to Ola Girls’ Senior High School at Kenyase in Ahafo.
Eager to pursue higher educaion, she went to African University College of Communication (AUCC) for Diploma in Communication Studies, in 2005.
With the desire to get to the top, she proceeded to Central Univsersity where she studied Business Administration, Management option, and later had her internship and service with Joy FM and TV3 respectively.
She later went back to do her Masters in Develoment Communication at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
The rural mission
The project she has embarked has helped communities get access to potable water, and improved deprived conditions in some villages in the country.
fufu in one of the villages
some items to a community
to reach a remote village
She has donated relief items including food and clothing to 488 alleged witches and wizards at Tendan witches camp, a family suffering from a strange disease at Kawu in Upper West, relief items to flood victims, and continues to supoort many people.
Challenges
According to her, some of the villages are hard to reach, as a result, they have to walk miles to reach various communities.
She has listed lack of fiancial support, language barriers, mode of transportation, potable water and network among others as factors impeding her work.
Recounting one difficult moment, she said that they were in the middle of their journey and unfortunately run out of water, and had to drink from a stream which was not wholesome.
“When you get the report to those in authority, most of the times nothing is done about it and it’s frustrating,” she said.
Regardless of these challenges, Tina Muulikaa says, the love for humanity, and looking back at Ahafo Hwidiem where she was born and raised, motivates her to do more.
Future
Though there had been times she wanted to give up as a result of frustation, she is looking at how to increase the base of her team and bring more people to light.
She has called on corporate Ghana to come on board to help Tina Report achieve its aim.
Tina Muulikaa encouraged people to get onto her channel, watch the stories and support some of the deprived communites and urged those who were well to do to organise themselves and go back to their villages to help eradicate the hardship others are facing.
Leisure
Tina who fellowships with the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Accra and loves Tuo Zaafi, fufu and Tubaani, listens to music and watches YouTube videos at her leisure time.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme