Camfed-Media partnership Meeting Held in Tamale –NR

The government quest to invest in girl-child education is one of the prudent measures a developing country like Ghana can adapt to improve the living standards of her people. 

It has been observed that, educating the girl-child, can help in ensuring low infant mortality and fertility rates. 

It is against this background that a one day Camfed-Media Partnership Meeting has been organized at the modern City Hotel in Tamale capital of  the Northern Region.

 It was aimed at forging mutual-beneficial working relationship between the media and Camfed. Campaign for female education,

Camfed is an NGO working to alleviate poverty and to fight HIV AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to be leaders of change.

Speaking to GBConline, the National director of Camfed Ghana John Asibi-Ali said Camfed only partner government’s sole responsibility of ensuring the wellbeing of Ghanaians.

As an organization, they have a shared value in government and have therefore decided to focus mainly on girl-child education, knowing that in the long round, it will help transform the country.

He indicated that Camfed works in 31 districts across the Northern Upper East, Upper West and Central Regions.

They support young women to become economically independent in order to achieve their full potentials

The Senior Programme officer of Camfed Ghana Rashida Iddressu explained that Cama is a network of Camfed beneficiary who are committed to supporting themselves and also reinvesting the benefits of their education into developing their communities.

She stated that Camfed as an organization, encourage the girls they support through their scholarship programme, to also think of how they can use the education they have acquired to improve their leadership qualities, their families and the communities as a whole.

Regarding challenges of Camfed in its operational area, Ms. Rashida stated  that Cama is often mistaken for Camfed explaining that Cama is an association of Camfed supported young girls coming together to volunteer to do things and see how they can address social issues and challenges in the communities.

She stressed that though it is voluntary service the render, they are sometimes, charged for the services they require. She

however, express appreciation to chiefs and opinion leaders in some communities who leant them their fullest support in their activities.

The monitoring and evaluation Mamager of Camfed -Ghana Samuel Asare Danquah said they use technology in their data collection.

They give each teacher- montor a smart phone with a software called Odekey which they use to gather data.

This he said is an additional work for the teacher yet they accept it in good faith which is very helpful to their course.

Story by; GBC' Correspondent Emmanuel Akayeti