CAMFED organises camp for female students
Over 720 female students of tertiary institutions and senior high schools drawn in the Northern, Ashanti, Central, Upper East and Upper West regions have attended a one-week camp on the theme, “Raising leaders for the next generation”.
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Addressing the closing session of the maiden Leadership and Enrichment Camp 2014 organised by the Campaign for Female Education Ghana (CAMFED), an educational non-governmental organisation, the acting Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Madam Kate Badu, advised young girls to not “sell their future to men” who would lure them into premarital sex.
She said apart from that practice shattering their dreams and aspirations, they could also waste all investments made in them by their parents, the government and other stakeholders in the educational sector.
She said it was necessary for all stakeholders to come together to ensure that children, especially girls, got the opportunity to pursue formal education or learn trades to empower them economically, so that they could resist the temptation of being induced with money by men to engage in premarital sex that could negatively affect their future development.
CAMFED Ghana has a 10-year partnership with The MasterCard Foundation Scholars programme, which has given scholarships to the female students to pursue further education.
The scholarship programme is designed to tap the potential of a critical mass of brilliant, needy young girls and women from rural Ghana to acquire higher education.
The key objective of the camp was to provide the platform for the beneficiaries of the programme to harness their unique leadership potential.
The Executive Director of CAMFED Ghana, Mrs Dolores Dickson, said the aim of the scholarship programme was to empower the girls for leadership positions to become agents of change in their communities.
