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CAMFED calls for partnership to support marginalised girls
Participants at the programme
Madam Angeline Murimirwa, the Chief Executive Officer of CAMFED International, has called for strong partnership to enhance support for marginalised girls and enable their transition to secure livelihoods for better future.
She said it was important for stakeholders to play a vital role to support CAMFED girls’ education programme, which was the starting point for social change for the country’s development.
She said this during CAMFED National Annual General Meeting in Tamale on the theme: “Advancing the CAMFED Guide Programme: Progress, Review, Key.
The event provided an opportunity for CAMFED Ghana to report on its major themes and programme of activities during the year under review and to receive from partners to inform strategies and approaches for the coming year.
It was also for CAMFED Ghana, its partners and champions to discuss critical issues, take stock and report on key activities as well as contribute to the formulation of the overall work plan of the organisation for the coming year.Madam Murimirwa said the challenges facing marginalised girls’ education and young women in rural communities needed to be addressed in collaboration with strategic partners to work to co-create opportunities, which aligned to their objectives.
Madam Fairuza Abdul-Rashid Safian, the Executive Director of CAMFED Ghana, said CAMFED had designed a strategic programme to support girls to complete school, become entrepreneurs and good leaders in society.
Mr Samuel Asare Danquah, the Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning at CAMFED Ghana said the organisation also established parents’ support group, which provided vital services to vulnerable girls and boys such as school meals programme and supervision at school hostels. -GNA
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Craze for x’mas shopping: Crowded markets, low patronage
Vendors of food and other wares associated with the Christmas celebration have expressed surprise at the low patronage despite the increased number of visitors to some of the major markets across the capital.
Four days to the celebration(Christmas), the markets are filled with various products ranging from food, clothing, livestock and many other stuff, but according to the vendors, patrons are doing more ‘window’ shopping.
The Spectator on visits to some of the markets in the capital, notably the Odawna, Makola, Accra Central Business District, New Town and others made similar observations as shoppers crowd them but did little in terms of purchases.
The paper also observed that majority of vendors, originally selling other wares have switched to product related to the festive season.
What it means is that there are a lot more clothes, food and vegetables, livestock and poultry, toys, firecrackers, drinks of different types and many others on display.
The markets have also stretched to the pedestrian pavement, leaving very narrow spaces for commuters to move about freely.
That, in addition to a few of the female vendors dressed in coloured attires to reflect the occasion, has heightened the euphoria, leaving the low sales as the only headache for the vendors.
Speaking with this paper, they sounded very optimistic, believing that sales would improve in the last few days to the yuletide.
According to them, there was the opportunity to sell beyond Christmas as the New Year celebration offers similar opportunity to trade the same wares.
They urged patrons to throng the markets to shop since prices were quite moderate and products affordable for all.
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Retirement service for Elder John Ackom-Asante,3 others
Retired Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Elder John Ackom-Asante, was last Sunday honoured by the Church of Pentecost Windy Hills District in Kasoa in the Central Region, with a retirement thanksgiving service, after serving for 26 year as an Elder of the church.
He was honoured with a citation and certificate of service along with three other elders who served in the capacity for various years.
Elder Ackom-Asante was baptised at the Darkuman Central Assembly in 1979 and ordained as an Elder in 1997.
The citation read “Your selfless service, zeal, willingness to relate wholeheartedly and your desire to effect change has gone a long way to shape the lives of many people in the church and the nation over the 26 years of your dedication to the service of the Lord.”
Elder Ackom- Asante held many positions at the Darkuman Central Assembly, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Tema, serving in various capacities as youth and evangelism ministry leader and marriage counsellor.
He was the founding member of the Darkuman Christian Fellowship, a member of the Greater Accra Christian Fellowship; member of Bible Society of Ghana; founding member Obuasi Chapter Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International and founding member of New Times Corporation Christian Fellowship and Chaplain, Methodist University Tema Campus 2009- 2010.
As a professional journalist, Elder Ackom-Asante combined effectively and efficiently his duty as a member and elder of the church and the demands of his profession, with admiration from the church, kith and kin, till his retirement on December
From Alhaji Salifu Abdul-Rahaman, Kasoa
