NGO launches project to support girls’ education
The Bikpaliil Association of Ghana (BAG), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has launched a project to highlight the need for massive support and encouragement for girls to acquire formal education.
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Dubbed: “Save Our Girls”, the association, which is committed to the welfare of the girl-child, launched the project at Old Fadama in Accra to create awareness of the need for parents and guardians to educate their daughters to aspire to greater heights.
According to the president of BAG, Mr Enoch Jayon, Article 25 (1a) of the 1992 constitution of Ghana provides for equal acess to free, compulsory basic education for every Ghanaian child, and “the girl-child was not exclusive of that right”
Old Fadama
He said the organisation decided to launch the awareness-creation programme at Old Fadamah because a number of people in that community lacked formal education.
“For instance, if you come to Old Fadamah, you see young girls involved in menial jobs such as hawking in search of greener pastures instead of them being in the classroom, and that is what we seek to minimise,” he said
For his part, the president of the Slum Union of Ghana (SUG), Mr Philip Kumah, said even though slum dwellers were illegal residents, their children were Ghanaians who needed to enjoy their constitutional rights, which included access to education, and called on the government to establish schools in such areas for the benefit of those children.
Achievements
The Public Relations Officer of BAG, Mr Michael Kofi Gmageh, said last year, the association’s sensitisation project in the Nkwanta-North District in the Volta Region resulted in 68 nursing mothers going back to school to continue their education.
He, therefore, called on stakeholders to come to their aid by contributing to the success of the project.
