As part of efforts to forge mutually-beneficial working relationships with the media, CAMFED Ghana has held its annual CAMFED-Media partnership meeting on Thursday 16th November 2023 at the Northern Regional capital, Tamale.
The meeting provided a good opportunity for networking and collaboration in support of girls’ education, women’s empowerment and job creation.
Madam Fairuza Safian, National Director for CAMFED Ghana, who made this known at the Media Partnership Meeting in Tamale at Mariam Hotel said CAMFED vision is of a world in which every child is educated, protected, respected, valued and grows up to turn the tide of poverty.
She said as the most effective strategy to tackle poverty and inequality, CAMFED multiplies educational opportunities for girls and empowers young women to become leaders of change.
“Our focus is on girls and young women in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, this is where girls face acute disadvantage and where their empowerment will have a transformative impact”she noted.
Madam Fairuza said CAMFED works in five countries namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi. So in Ghana, CAMFED operates in 38 districts across the Northern, North East, Savannah, Bono, Bono East, Western, Eastern, Greater Accra, Ashanti, Upper East, Upper West and Central regions.
“Again we support girls and young women to be equipped who are capacitated to become economically independent in order to be able to achieve their fullest potentials”, she added.
The National Director for CAMFED mentioned that CAMFED has developed a new strategy plan for the period 2024-2029 and our plan provides the blueprint and framework for CAMFED’s new strategy phase and it builds on experience and momentum to set a game changing ambition.
In the next six years we will implement a comprehensive support system targeted at the most marginalized girls, enable young women to transition to secure livelihoods and join a powerful peer network of leaders and drive adoption of best practices in national education system at scale, she mentioned.
CAMFED is a pan-African movement, revolutionizing how girls’ education should be delivered.
Source: yagbonradioonline/Fataw Diwura
