Zebilla (U/E), Oct. 26, - Action-Aid-Ghana has begun a two-year
project aimed at forming girls’ clubs and equipping them with knowledge to
fight child-marriages in the society.
The project seeks to equip girls’
clubs with the knowledge, skills and attitude to resist child-marriages and
also focus on reducing the socio-cultural practices that promote the concern in
the communities.
The project, ‘Ending
Child-Marriage’, is supported by the United Nations Initiative on Child
Education Fund (UNICEF).
In this regard a girls’ club fair
was held on Wednesday to bring together girls from communities under the Bawku
West District of the Upper East Region to interact with them on the need to end
child marriage.
Mr Osman Musah, the Project
Coordinator for Action-Aid in the Upper East Region, said girls are most
vulnerable and needed to be empowered to combat all forms of violence and other
unacceptable practices.
Mr Musah said since the inception
of the campaign, Action-Aid Ghana had been actively engaging youth groups,
giving them education to promote their rights and supporting them to champion
issues affecting them.
He said girls are assets to
society and called on stakeholders including parents, the traditional
authority, political leaders and school authorities to protect them and allow
them to grow so that they can play useful roles in the society.
Mr Musah urged the traditional
authority to collaborate with the district assemblies to institute measures
such as bye-laws that would prevent people from promoting child marriages in
communities.
Mr David Naa-ire, the
Coordinating Director of the Bawku West District Assembly, said the
contribution of women towards national development is vital and the assembly is
committed to work with other stakeholders to help stop child marriages in the
society.
He said there is a high female
child population in the district and that if the needed resources are devoted
towards their development, the area would see tremendous growth in the coming
years.
GNA
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