Beneficiaries of the ANZANSI Research Project, a project run by BasicNeeds-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), have shared their stories about how the project has improved their lives.
They even spoke about the achievements they’d had thanks to the expertise and experience they’d learned as a result of the intervention.
The project, which was introduced in ten Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Tamale Metropolis and the Sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region, aimed to encourage female JHS students who might otherwise have dropped out of school and migrated to urban areas to participate in interventions that would help them grow and develop.
The two-year project is being carried out in partnership with Washington University in the United States of America (USA) and the University of Ghana’s School of Public Health, with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States.
It merged two methods, including Family Economic Empowerment, which enabled parents to prepare for their girl child’s education by opening Child Development Accounts (CDAs) to compensate for the child’s education costs.
In addition, the Multi-Family Group session fosters healthy interactions between parents and their daughters when resolving common social and community obstacles to their well-being.
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Some beneficiaries said they used the expertise and information learned in the Multi-Family Group session to provide social assistance to their girls, reinforce family solidarity, and decide the positions of the children at a close-out meeting on the Project’s Multi-Family Group session in Tamale.
They said that the project instilled in them the habit of saving in order to fund their daughters’ education and have the necessary start-up capital when the child wishes to start a small business after finishing their JHS education.
They also mentioned that the project has taught them how to be diligent in ensuring that their daughters do not wander off, but rather take their schooling seriously in order to make them understand their ability and aspirations.
Mr Kingsley Kumbelim, ANZANSI Study Project Coordinator at BasicNeeds Ghana, explained that the project aimed to bring together strategies to help minimize rural-urban migratory patterns and child labor among poverty-affected female youth in the Northern Region.
He went on to claim that it also intended to minimize school dropout rates and raise female attendance in schools in order to ensure the region’s growth.
He encouraged politicians to develop policies that emphasize girls’ education and have the requisite resources to deter them from fleeing their families to compete in kayaye.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
