A woman of many aspirations: Jazmin Adjei
People stop and stare as they are astounded by 25-year-old, Jazmin Adjei, who magnetizes people when she walks through a room. Her confidence is admiring, the smile on her face is radiating, and her faith shines right through her eyes.
“A true Aquarius,” she swears.
It’s the end of a workday, and Jazmin has to rush home to finalize the finishing touches of her new designs. She currently has a day job to pay the bills as she works on her upcoming brand, “Lady Lush Designs.”
Finding her passion in fashion, Adjei would visit her husband in Ghana and fell in love with their culture. By taking inspiration from the African culture, Adjei created African style designs with Ghanaian fabrics, as well as shea butter and Black soap inspired products.
But Ghanaian fabric wasn’t the only thing that inspired her. During her first visit to Africa, Adjei visited many villages that needed help.
“I looked around and turned to my husband and said, ‘there’s something we can do in Ghana that God is telling us to do, and we need to impact this community,’” said Adjei.
Before Jazmin was born, her parents migrated from Turks and Caicos Island to Miami, FL. She grew up with her five elder siblings in Opa-Locka. Since she was a little girl, Adjei knew she always wanted to help people by becoming a nurse.
While attending Florida International University, she changed her major as she knew there were other ways to help those in need. “During my junior year, I was having doubts about becoming a nurse and felt I had another calling in life,” said Adjei.
In 2015, she graduated from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology & Anthropology, and a Certificate in Women & Gender Studies.
Adjei is currently a student at Purdue University and is working on obtaining her Masters of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and Global Healthcare.
In 2015, after graduating, Adjei met her now husband, Danny Adjei in Ghana, Africa.
While in college, Danny found Jazmin on Facebook and would message her non-stop for 8 months.
“I couldn’t understand how someone all the way from Africa found me on Facebook, so I continuously kept ignoring him,” she laughs.
Once she realized he was cousins with a guy she went to college with, Jazmin gave him a chance and flew to Ghana on Christmas day to meet him.
From the day Danny and Jazmin started communicating through Facebook, he knew she was an amazing, ambitious lady who was going to change the world.
“Jazmin is a well-known Socialite amongst her peers. She’s vibrant, stylish with a high-spirited personality. She’s beautiful inside and out and her passion for God and humanity is magnificent,” said Danny Adjei.
Danny is 30 years old, currently lives in Africa and is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and pastor.
He pushed Jazmin to pursue her dreams of fashion design and helped her plan strategically on how to get her designs out to the world.
“We do everything together and when I realized she was into fashion, I gave her the idea of getting into African fabrics,” he said.
Danny and Jazmin both have a passion for helping those in need. On her first visit to Ghana, they came up with the Danny & Jazmin Adjei Foundation to realize their dreams of making the world a more glorious place for humanity.
Jazmin and Danny are now the Co-founders and Executive Director of the Danny & Jazmin Adjei Foundation, a non-profit organization.
The foundation provides humanitarian services by building sustainable systems to reduce global poverty through capacity building initiatives.
Their goals are to work with orphans and medically under-served populations by building a hospital. They held their first health expo and gave out food, clothes, toiletries, and toys.
In 2018, Jazmin went back to Ghana with over 15 people from Nova University, including her mentor, Jadine Louissaint.
“We wanted to figure out a way to sustain their living, that even if we left, they would be okay,” said Jadine Louissant.
Jadine Louissant is a Clinical Resource Coordinator in the Clinical Resource Management department at Jackson Memorial Hospital. She is also running her non-profit called TransforMe Ayiti.
Louissant has known Jazmin since she was 9 years old and has been mentoring her for over a decade. They met at a mentorship program that Louissant led for young girls to expand their science, math and social skills.
“Our relationship grew beyond the mentorship program and she became the little sister I never had,” said Louissant.
She has witnessed Jazmin start a business and learn how to constructively work through the good and bad. Louissant is proud of how far Jazmin has come with both her non-profit and new fashion brand.
“In this season it’s beautiful to see how she’s making a name for herself that’s built on purpose and serving others,” said Louissant.
Currently, the Danny and Jazmin Adjei Foundation helps those in South Florida and Ghana, and will eventually expand globally, starting with Turks and Caicos. You can also shop Jazmin’s designs on www.ladylushdesigns.com where 10% of the proceeds go to her non-profit.
Jazmin’s schedule is about to get a lot more hectic in the next few months as she juggles her regular day job, a non-profit organization, and her new fashion brand.
But she is ready. This is what she was meant to do and is ready to take on what God has led her to.
