When Amoo, a Woodstock nurse, first came to the U. A dream started to become reality when she spoke with a colleague at JourneyCare CareCenter, a hospice in Woodstock. They worked together to set up the Girls 4 Girls organization, create an online presence, and register as a charity. Then, the real work began. The team began with a class about teenage pregnancy and preventing STDs. Furthermore, girls skip school because they cannot afford the proper products to take care of their health, or they have a lack of knowledge about how to take care of themselves.
A young woman takes action for girls’ education in Ghana
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Gifty dreams of reducing teenage pregnancy in her district, and for that she is leaving no resource mobilization opportunity unexplored. These girls face reduced opportunities to fully realize their economic and social rights. I also reflected and identified a lot of unproductive things I was doing and this made me re-strategize. Through her newly acquired skills, Gifty felt empowered to communicate and meet with potential donors more regularly. She even developed several proposals that she shared with potential donors. She also wrote reports illustrating her activities for her previous sponsors. One day, a rural bank to which she had sent one of her proposals contacted her.
Giving back to girls of Ghana
Visit our new interactive Atlas! Women in the northern region marry at the youngest age. It is difficult to track child marriage in Ghana due to an absence of birth certificates in some areas and difficulty in proving if a girl is underage. Child marriage is driven by gender inequality and the belief that girls are somehow inferior to boys.
A lot of progress has been made in closing the gap between girls and boys when to comes to education. The average number of years of education that the poorest girls from rural areas aged 20 to 24 can attain is about four years as compared to 13 years for girls from affluent homes in urban areas. Gender differences tend to become more significant at the secondary level even in the wealthiest households. UNICEF works with partners to ensure that education professionals receive gender training and continue to address barriers to pave a clear way for girls of Ghana to make progress in basic education, especially till junior high school.
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