Empowerment for Transformation (E4T)
Highlights
- A total of 50 women with girls in school were identified and selected from 10 VSLA women groups as direct beneficiaries of the project.
- The 50 VSLA women were successfully trained on conflict resolution techniques to improve their participation in peace building in Chereponi.
- The selected 50 VSLA women groups also went through financial literacy training to ensure they understand Basic Business management, Savings and Investment.
- Funds have been disbursed among VSLA women groups to improve women’s access to loans. This is to ensure support for VSLA women to retain their girls in school.
- Through the intervention, VSLA women have realized their rights and how important their role is to family development especially when they share their opinion in decision making.
- 50 girls whose mothers belong to the VSLA groups have been trained on their rights, sexual abuse and the avenues available for girls who are abused.
- The girls have also been engaged to fully understand the importance of education and making safe sexual choices.
It followed the revelation that most girls in Chereponi drop out of school due to teenage pregnancy or the zeal to travel to the southern part of Ghana to engage in head-pottery. These girls now serve as Champions in their respective schools, helping their peers to also understand the importance of education and making safe sexual choices by sharing the information they learnt from the project.