World Vision Ghana 'empowers girls for responsible living'

World Vision Ghana, Nkwanta Cluster of the Oti region has organized a six-day Annual Girls’ Vacation Camp under the theme; "Empowering the girl child for responsible living".

In an interview the Nkwanta Cluster Manager of World Vision, Salomey Yeboah said the camp was to among other things discourage teenage pregnancy, peer influence, early marriage or child marriage as well as empower girls with employable skills.

According to her, to realize their vision of ensuring that every child has life in all its fullness, the girls are educated to abstain from sex and how to take care of themselves as they go through physical, emotional and psychological changes during adolescence.

They also learned handicraft including the making of jewellery using beads, weaving, and basketry.

The campers were also taught to make liquid soap, shower gel, banana ice-cream and different kinds of pastries.

The Girls, about 215 in number, are camped in Nkwanta from fifteen (15) communities in the Kadjeibi Area Programme and twenty-four communities in the Nkwanta Area Programme, all in the Oti region.

The targeted girls are aged from 10 to 18-years.

By the end of the training, according to the Project Officer for Education and Life Skills, World Vision Nkwanta, Kennedy Amponsah-Cheremeh, the girls would be able to take positive decisions as they grow and would be empowered for responsible living.

Some of the girls present thanked World Vision for giving them the opportunity to learn new things. They however pleaded with World Vision to extend the vacation camp to cover all girls in the country.

They also asked that more of such training should be organized for the adolescent girls in the Municipality to protect them from pre-marital sexual activities.