FEMALE TEACHERS IN NORTHERN REGION RECEIVE BICYCLES (PAGE 11)

STORY: Zakaria Alhassan, Tamale

A U.K. charity organisation, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), has presented bicycles to female teachers and community health peer educators in some selected districts in the Northern Region.
The 132 bicycles are to help facilitate the work of the beneficiaries who operate at deprived communities in the region.
CAMFED was established in the Northern Region in 1998 and has been providing various interventions to improve on female education in the region over the years.
The organisation was also engaged in the provision of small loans and skills training for out-of-school young women to engage in economic activities to help reduce their vulnerability to life hazards associated with economic dependency.
According to the head of programmes for CAMFED in Tamale, Dolores Dickson, her outfit currently provides bursary support to 1800 girls in primary and junior and senior high schools in the region.
She further explained that as part of the organisation’s contribution to improving quality education in the region, CAMFED had collaborated with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to engage 109 volunteer teachers across 15 districts in the area.
She said it was in response to the volunteer teachers’ appeal for means of transport, that the organisation acquired the bicycles to improve contact hours with their pupils.
The Northern Regional Director of Education, Mr John K. Hobenu, commended the management of CAMFED for their immense support to the education sector over the years and urged beneficiaries to put in their best to justify the investments made.
He urged teachers to serve as role models to their pupils and students, saying that as teachers they must remember that God was using them to transform the lives of people. He added that teaching was a divine work.
On behalf of her colleagues, Ms Deborah Mankutui expressed appreciation to the benefactors and promised to live up to expectation.