Mr Eric Ayaba, Programs Unit Manager for Plan International Ghana, has lamented over the seemingly incessant gender-based barriers and inequalities against girl child development in Northern Ghana.
He said this in Wa on Thursday, June 24, 2021 during the launch of “Music 4 Change” concept, a Plan International Ghana cum National Youth Authority initiative to use gender transformational music to change perceptions about the girl child and to promote the rights of the girl child in the Upper West Region.
He said despite the strides made by successive governments, Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations over the years, girl child education is still on the low side compared to their boy counterparts.
He also lamented the increasing cases in the number of teenage pregnancies and child marriages in the Upper west Region.
Mr Ayaba further lamented over the growing predilection of young girls of the northern belt having to go to ‘down south’ to engage in ‘kayaye’ for a living for themselves, families and future, the phenomenon he described as incomprehensible.
He however, pledged Plan International Ghana’s solemn support to mitigating these entrenched social misdemeanors that are destroying the future of the girl child.
To clamp on these discriminatory social factors, the Programs Unit Manager said his outfit has now shifted its attention to using the girl child and the youth who usually suffer from these social injustices to create the needed change in attitude for their own development.
He said they had earlier used adults, organizations and state agencies to change attitudes and discriminations, but said it was now time to use the girl child and youth themselves.
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