Adwoa Aboah has been re-appointed as the BFC Ambassador for Positive Fashion for another year. During her first year, Adwoa helped the BFC lead a successful campaign for model’s health and diversity within the industry, leading the charge on change and using fashion as a positive platform to inspire future generations.

For 2019/2020, Aboah turns her focus to education and to inspiring young people to get involved in the fashion industry by exposing them to the plethora of existing roles, other than fashion design. Her partnership with BFC will launch a mentoring programme that highlights the many different opportunities and careers in fashion and empowers young people from all backgrounds to get involved in the creative industries.

The mentoring programme will involve five key industry mentors, coupled with one mentee each, who will work together over a period of four months. The programme is open to any young people 18+ starting their careers in the fashion industry or aspiring to do so; no academic background is required.

The mentors will be paired with a mentee chosen through the BFC and Adwoa’s networks and meet for four two-hour sessions during the four-month period. The aim is to organise shadowing sessions, networking opportunities and key information sharing between mentor and mentee that will inspire and be invaluable to their future career plans.