Two Schools Partner With Ram Foundation For Girls Impact Project

Two Schools namely Ola Girl Senior High School in Ho and the Tamale Girls Senior High School have signed up for the pilot of the GIRLS IMPACT PROJECT.

The project is an initiative of the Rebecca Agroh Memorial Foundation (RAM Foundation) which aims at reducing the widespread unemployment in the country. It involves among other things teaching young girls in second cycle institutions what the Foundation calls non - traditional women vocational skills such as mobile phone repairing, carpentary, and graphic designing to name a few which in the long run will help them start up their own businesses. In addition, the Foundation also aims at developing the leadership, communication, and team work skills of these young girls as well as instilling in them a sense of volunteerism and community participation.

At a meeting, the Assistant Headmaster of Ola Girls Senior High School Mr. Ken Adevu was very optimistic that the project will go a long way to help the girls later in life and that the association of the school with the Foundation may open the school up to other similar laudable opportunities. He added that, he was happy that the Foundation chose Ola Girls Senior High School out of the over 1000 Senior High Schools in the country to participate in the pilot project.

The Foundation represented by Mr. Raymond Ayivor, the Director of Research and Operations and Miss Akosua Gyan Baffour the Finance Manager stressed the need for effective collaboration to ensure the smooth implementation of the project. It is the hope of the Foundation that, the project will be extended to all the ten regions of the country in the not too distant future. The Tamale Vocational Institute and the Women Vocational Institute in Sokode – Lokoe in Ho will also be partnering for the implementation of the project.

The RAM Foundation is a registered women-focused not- for- profit organization which aims at women development through skills training, capacity building, livelihood support, research, advocacy and resource mobilization for socio economic development.