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CAMFED calls for partnership to support marginalised girls
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Participants at the programme
Madam Angeline Murimirwa, the Chief Executive Officer of CAMFED International, has called for strong partnership to enhance support for marginalised girls and enable their transition to secure livelihoods for better future.
She said it was important for stakeholders to play a vital role to support CAMFED girls’ education programme, which was the starting point for social change for the country’s development.
She said this during CAMFED National Annual General Meeting in Tamale on the theme: “Advancing the CAMFED Guide Programme: Progress, Review, Key.
The event provided an opportunity for CAMFED Ghana to report on its major themes and programme of activities during the year under review and to receive from partners to inform strategies and approaches for the coming year.
It was also for CAMFED Ghana, its partners and champions to discuss critical issues, take stock and report on key activities as well as contribute to the formulation of the overall work plan of the organisation for the coming year.Madam Murimirwa said the challenges facing marginalised girls’ education and young women in rural communities needed to be addressed in collaboration with strategic partners to work to co-create opportunities, which aligned to their objectives.
Madam Fairuza Abdul-Rashid Safian, the Executive Director of CAMFED Ghana, said CAMFED had designed a strategic programme to support girls to complete school, become entrepreneurs and good leaders in society.
Mr Samuel Asare Danquah, the Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning at CAMFED Ghana said the organisation also established parents’ support group, which provided vital services to vulnerable girls and boys such as school meals programme and supervision at school hostels. -GNA
Deputy National Women Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mimi Duah, has openly declared her support for Mavis Hawa Koomson as the next National Women’s Organiser of the party.
In a statement endorsing Hawa Koomson’s candidature, Ms Duah outlined four key reasons why she believes the former MP and Minister of State is best placed to lead the party’s women’s wing.
According to her, Hawa Koomson is a motherly figure who rose from the grassroots and is widely noted for her forgiving nature and ability to foster unity.
“She is a true grassroots mother who easily forgives, fosters unity, provides guidance and arbitrates to ensure all aggrieved party women are brought on board to ensure a unified women’s wing,” she stated.
Ms Duah also pointed to Hawa Koomson’s vast experience, having served as a Constituency Women’s Organiser, Member of Parliament and Minister of State, noting that the experience positions her to provide effective leadership as National Women’s Organiser.
She further described Hawa Koomson as capable of making the women’s wing resourceful, through her extensive network and business contacts, to lobby for logistics, training and financial support for women organisers at all levels.
Lastly, she said the NPP as an opposition party needs fearless, bold and assertive leadership at the women’s front to inspire regional, constituency and polling station women organisers as the party reorganises towards the 2028 elections.
“We need a Women’s Organiser who has been tested, who is bold, who understands grassroots women, and who can lead us to victory in 2028. Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson is that leader,” she stressed.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister inaugurates Ghana-Korea Heritage Project Steering Committee
Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Minister, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, has inaugurated the Ghana-Korea Heritage Project Steering Committee to provide strategic oversight for a five-year programme focused on preserving Ghana’s heritage sites and strengthening their resilience to climate change.
The project will support climate-risk mapping, digital surveying and 3D modelling, joint research, capacity building, community engagement and modern monitoring technologies.
Korea is also providing specialised equipment, including drones, 3D scanners, digital microscopes, thermal imaging cameras and GPS survey instruments, to enhance Ghana’s capacity to scientifically assess, document and conserve heritage structures.
The partnership, which will run through 2030 and beyond, is expected to deepen Ghana-Korea cultural ties while promoting sustainable, technology-driven and climate-adaptive heritage management for future generations.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
