By Dennis Peprah
Sunyani, Feb. 26, GNA – Girl little one schooling has seen important enchancment within the Bono Region, with women outnumbering boys in class enrolment, Mrs Josephine Yalley, the Bono Regional Girl-Child Education Officer, has stated.
“These days it’s not about girls in school, but it’s about how to retain them and how to help them transition them complete safely and that’s our mission and focus now” she advised the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview in Sunyani.
Mrs Yalleh was chatting with the GNA in an interview to mark the 2025 celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on the theme “unpacking STEM Careers: Her Voice in Science, with a hybrid on 11 February 2025”.
The Day celebrated yearly on February 11 was instituted by UNESCO and UN Women geared toward selling ladies and women in science. It additionally provides a possibility to advertise full and equal entry to and participation in science for girls and women.
Mrs Yalley stated the curiosity of many ladies to entry formal schooling and stay in faculties had improved within the area for some years now and attributed the development to the intensified girl-child schooling within the native communities.
She stated teenage being pregnant, little one marriage had additionally gone down, nevertheless, referred to as on conventional authorities and civil society organisations, actors, and spiritual our bodies to collaborate with the GES and assist stem some outmoded cultural and conventional norms inimical to the expansion and growth of women.
Mrs Mavis Danso Darko, the Bono Regional Coordinator of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), urged dad and mom and guardians to encourage their woman little one to pursue STEM programs.
She advised the GNA that STEM had enormous quite a few alternatives and potential for women and girls, saying women who studied STEM simply entry instructional scholarships and employment.
Mrs Darko stated it was unfaithful that STEM schooling was tough and reserved for boys, urging women to develop the curiosity and specialised within the space as a life profession to simply entry gainful employment.
Earlier, the Regional Girls Education Unit with assist from the Help Her Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) working to empower women and the weak in society held a road procession to create consciousness concerning the STEM Day.
It was attended by greater than 400 faculty youngsters with placards, a few of which learn “educate, encourage and empower”, “more women in science, more solutions for tomorrow”, and “STEM needs more minds including hers”.
In an interview, Ms Emelia Darko, Co-Director, Help Her Ghana, stated if given alternative “women do and do things well,” therefore the necessity to impressed women to undertake STEM schooling to place ladies properly to contribute to environmental sustainability and proffer life like options to the nation’s growth challenges.
“Women care a lot about the environment, and they will be able to take care of the environment if we encourage and support girls to study STEM education,” she said.
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