[1933-2024]

Doris Anin was born on the 27th of June 1933 in Cape Coast to David Mensah Dadzie of Egya No. 1 and Mrs Christiana Pobee Dadzie nee Annan.

Aged seven she was sent to the Wesley Girls boarding school in Cape Coast and stayed there throughout her elementary and secondary school.  After obtaining her Cambridge School certificate in 1951, her father sent her to Kingston Technical College in Surrey, England (now Surrey University) where she pursued the Chartered Institute of Secretaries course in September 1952.  She finished the course in 1956 and was attached to the Register of Company’s Office of the Civil Service Supply Company Limited on the Strand in London.  She worked there for six months before returning to the Gold Coast in 1956.

She worked at the Kumasi College of Technology for two years and moved to Accra when she met Mr Justice Patrick Dankwa Anin a young, practicing barrister.  She left her job with Mobil to relocated to Sunyani with her husband.

In 1971, she was invited by the Board of the Ghana Society for the Blind to assist in the restructuring and compiling of a register of blind women taking part in the society’s home training project sponsored by the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind in Haywards Heath, England.  Both organisations were so impressed with her performance that they invited her to take on the Directorship of the Ghana Society of the Blind and upon acceptance she commenced work in 1972.

For ten years, she built the society up catering for the needs of young, blind students from the Akropong School of the Blind placing them in secondary schools, teacher training colleges and the University of Ghana, Legon.

The needs of elderly retired persons who had become blind later in life were also catered for by arranging talking book libraries etc.

In the early 70s Doris Anin, Molly Richardson, Mrs Theresa Andoh, Lady Charlotte Quashie Idun and Mrs Kate Abam were some of the old students of Wesley Girls who spearheaded the formation of the Wesley Girls Old Girls Association.

In 1976, The Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind appointed her as Liaison Officer for West Africa in addition to her job as Director.  She was responsible for Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gambia and visited these countries regularly.  In 1981, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Ghana National Trust Fund and then invited to join the committee that looked into the allowances of inmates of the Weija Leprosarium in 1981.  In 1983, Doris Anin resigned from the Ghana Society for the Blind and joined her husband in the Gambia where he had been appointed as the President of the Gambia Court of Appeal. They returned to Ghana to retire and Doris enjoyed her role as a grandmother until she passed away in 2024.