STORY: ZAKARIA ALHASSAN, TAMALE
A UK-based 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 in deprived communities in the region.
CAMFED, which was established in the Northern Region in 1998, has been providing various interventions to improve on female education in the region over the years.
It is 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’s hazards associated with economic dependency.
The Head of Programmes of CAMFED, Ms Dolores Dickson, told the Daily Graphic in Tamale that her outfit currently provided bursary to 1,800 girls in primary, junior high and senior high schools in the region.
She stated further that as part of the organisation’s contribution to the improvement of quality education in the region, CAMFED was collaborating with the Ghana Education Service to engage 109 volunteer teachers across 15 districts in the area.
Ms Dickson 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 for the education sector over the years, and urged the beneficiaries to put in their best to justify the investments made.
He also urged teachers to serve as role models to their pupils and students, noting that “as teachers, remember that God is using you to transform the lives of people; teaching is divine work.”
On behalf of her colleagues, Ms Deborah Mankutui expressed appreciation to her benefactors and promised to live up to expectation.
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