Tammùkke Feminists

Beginning as an advocacy passion project aimed at sharing accessible information on women’s issues, Akola founded Tamùkke Feminists in 2017. Tamùkke Feminists has now grown into a public education group focusing on sexual reproductive health rights, abortion rights, LBTQ rights, and mental health in the Caribbean region through an intersectional feminist perspective. Tamùkke Feminists’ approach is collaboratively designed with the organisation’s beneficiaries to ensure that its proposed solutions are directly targeting the issues women in Guyana are most affected by. 

Akola attended the One Young World Summit in Manchester, 2022. She was a Delegate Speaker on the Gender Equality plenary challenge, where she spoke about using lived experiences to fight for gender equality. Akola believes that attending the Summit helped increase the visibility of her work and Tamùkke Feminists.

Tamùkke Feminists has supported 71 women with four sessions of therapy services as part of its Mind Fund programme, challenging the stigma around mental illness in Guyana and providing access to mental health care. Its Work Ready programme has provided 50 women with job preparedness training, career mentoring, and labour rights. The organisation has also reached 90 women through its clothing drives in two regions in Guyana. Tamùkke Feminists has contributed towards enhanced public education on intersectional feminist issues. It also co-created the iMatter app with UNFPA Guyana, providing survivors of violence with information on how to access relevant services in their regions.

“Being a One Young World Ambassador has connected me with incredible change leaders
from across the world who are involved in important development work. Being connected to a community of individuals who are really making progress on the SDGs has been an inspiring experience.”