Vice-President H.E. Prof. Jane Naane Opoku-Agyemang has known as for elevated illustration and empowerment of girls in Ghana in commemoration of Worldwide Girls’s Day.
In a heartfelt message, the Vice-President emphasised the significance of Ghanaian women in national development, describing them because the spine of the nation.
Ghanaian girls are the spine of our households, communities, and economic system. Whether or not in our markets, boardrooms, lecture rooms, farmlands, or on the seashores, girls proceed to drive innovation, nurture progress, and form the way forward for our nation. Our contributions to enterprise, governance, schooling, healthcare, and the sciences are invaluable, and as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to create an ecosystem the place everybody can thrive with out imposed limitations.
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Whereas praising efforts to advertise gender equality and ladies’s empowerment, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang talked about key initiatives the present management plans to undertake to make sure girls are given alternatives to excel.
These initiatives embrace the Women’s Development Bank to assist girls entrepreneurs financially and the Affirmative Action policy aimed toward rising girls’s illustration in authorities.
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Acknowledging setbacks in attaining girls’s empowerment and gender equality, the Vice-President assured that her management will implement measures for ladies to achieve their full potential. She additionally known as on the nation to collectively assist the mission of girls’s empowerment in Ghana.
Allow us to reaffirm our collective dedication to constructing a Ghana the place each girl and woman has the liberty to dream, the ability to attain, and the assist to excel. Empowering girls isn’t just a girls’s challenge; it’s a nationwide crucial. When girls thrive, nations prosper… Allow us to proceed to speed up motion.
Worldwide Girls’s Day (IWD) 2025, noticed on March 8, focuses on the theme ‘Speed up Motion,’ emphasizing the urgency of attaining gender equality.
