Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG), a non-governmental organization has implemented the Women’s Voice and Leadership project (WVL), at Ayopea; a community in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region.
The women’s voice and leadership (WVL) project, dubbed “Pogmenka” seeks to reduce gender inequality through an increased participation of girls and women in decision making in the Upper East Region by the year 2023, with funding from Global Affairs Canada through Plan International.
According to the Assistant Project Officer at Youth Harvest Foundation, Millicent Ayaaba, members of “Pogmenka Network group” will be engaging community leaders and members against acts of violence constantly being meted out to girls and women in their respective communities.
“With this project 30 beneficiaries had been empowered in the Ayopea community and today it is just one of the activities that beneficiaries are supposed to carry on. We are currently here organizing community fora where these 30 beneficiaries are putting issues affecting girls and women before their community leaders. So they have come out with a number of issues that are affecting the growth and devolvement of girls and women in their community.” She explained.
Madam Ayaaba continued that “Today it is just a platform for members to layout the issues affecting them to the community members so that to together we will help solve those problems, so that they will be gender inequality will reduce in the community”
Some of the beneficiaries of the Pogmenka network spoke to A1News on the benefits of the project.
According to Dominica “This project Youth Harvest Foundation is embarking on here in our community; it is a very good thing because gender inequality is very real in our community here. So I think this is a platform that can bring changes and it help we the young girls especially the members of Pokmenka Network; it really benefit us”
Another member Janet said “I do not have anything doing which can earn me money, but with what Youth Harvest Foundation is to help us do; it is going to help me and my family.”
On his part, the Assembly Member for the Ayopea electoral area, Hamidu Abdul Karim Azoore expressed gratitude that the organization had identified his community for the initiative.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|David Azure |Ghana
