I want to inspire girls in STEM to believe that it is possible to pursue a fulfilling career in any scientific discipline. - Mavis Owureku-Asare

Vitamin C quickly breaks down in the heat and evaporates easily out of the fruit. What is orange without Vitamin C.

We have what it takes as Ghanaians and scientists to provide solutions that are tailored towards our needs in Ghana. We do not always need to import ideas and technologies that may not even work out for us. It seems that we are good at importing solutions that we feel we need. This is also because we have not been able to look for them ourselves. We are just importing. Sometimes they are even dumped on us. And when we try to apply them on the field or farmers try to adopt them, it does not work. So, it is important for us to develop our own solutions.

I developed the solar dryer using available materials to process fresh tomato to high-quality tomato powder that can be reconstituted to tomato paste and used in the formulation of food.