The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Ghana will support five million Ghanaian girls between 2020 and 2025 to attend and complete their education at various levels.
All of the five million girls will receive social support which would help address the social barriers they face, that hinder their ability to learn, such as low self-esteem and confidence, as well as poor wellness and bad study habits.
In addition, 70% of the girls (3.4 million out of the 5 million identified as being the most marginalised) will receive economic support in addition to social support.
This was disclosed by the National Director of CAMFED Ghana, Mrs Sally Ofori Yeboah at a media partnership meeting in Accra.
According to Mrs Yeboah, the economic support that would be provided to the girls would be through a combination of CAMFED bursaries, community initiatives and CAMFED Association (CAMA) philanthropy.
She said CAMFED would also partner with the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to scale up its Learner Guide Programme through which young women who have successfully gone through any of its programmes become leaders in providing social support to girls in schools.
She added that CAMFED would invest in Enterprise Development to expand young women’s livelihood opportunities and in turn, their capacity to provide economic support to girls.
She said over the years, CAMFED has collaborated with several organisations to acquire the necessary resources, expertise, data and knowledge needed to effectively implement its programmes.
She singled out the Mastercard Foundation and applauded them for their contributions, which helped to implement many CAMFED programmes including the Innovation Bursary Programme, The Scholars Programme, the Transitions Programme and now the Young Africa Works programme.
CAMFED works in five countries in Africa and, in Ghana, it operates in 38 districts across the Northern, North East, Savannah, Bono, Bono East, Western, Eastern, Greater Accra, Ashanti, Upper East, Upper West and Central Regions.
Its main objective is to support girls and young women to ensure that there are equipped and capacitated to become economically independent to be able to achieve their potential.
Ishmael Batoma, ISD
