Gender Ministry to set up mentoring camp for girls

By Sumaiya Salifu Saeed, GNA    

Ho, May 10, GNA – The Volta Regional Office of the Department of Gender, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, is to set up a mentoring camp for adolescent girls to know their basic and reproductive health rights.

The camp, in collaboration with Girl Child Education Officers from the Ghana Education Service, will select teenage girls from 10 districts across the Region as participants, with funding from the United Nations Population Fund.

Madam Lena Alai, the Volta Regional Director, Department of Gender, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the camp was to help mentor girls to know their basic and reproductive health rights.

She said the girls would also get the opportunity to have face-to-face interactions with their mentors while learning about gender related issues and equality.

Madam Alai said through the camp, the girls would be empowered to pursue their education to the highest level devoid of any obstruction. 

A network of past beneficiaries of the programme, since 2016, would be set up to track their performance and assess the impact of the camp on their lives.

Madam Alai noted that the tracking would serve as a leverage in impacting other girls and find out where beneficiaries had fallen short.

She said her Department would continue to work to motivate adolescents in and out of school to pursue higher goals for themselves, their families and society.

GNA

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