Girl-Child education is key to economic growth – Josephine Oppong-Yeboah

Media personality and Gender Advocate, Josephine Oppong-Yeboah, says investing in girl-child education is one of the quickest and most efficient methods of encouraging economic growth in any nation.

She has, therefore, called on all stakeholders to help increase enrolment of the girl-child in school to ensure inclusive development in society.

For her, when girls are educated, they are in the best position to make better judgments and certain menaces like teenage pregnancy will slow down.

Ms Oppong-Yeboah was speaking via Zoom on Friday, July 29, 2022, on inclusive education in Ghana.

“We need to take the girl child education seriously; they build societies,” she noted.

She expressed the concern that in spite of how fast the world is developing, some people still did not see the need to educate girls.

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“Some communities in the country continued to discriminate against girl-child enrolment and refused to see it as a key factor for girls’ empowerment, prosperity, development, and welfare,” Ms Oppong-Yeboah noted.

For her, no nation can develop without educating their girl-child, adding that it is about time all barriers to the education of females, especially those in rural areas, were removed.

She was of the view that early marriage and teenage pregnancy were the major causes of school dropouts among females, especially in rural communities, hence the need for parents, opinion leaders, traditional authorities, and all who matter must take steps at the local level to protect these female children from falling prey to early marriage and teenage pregnancy.

By Isaac Kofi Dzokpo