After a successful transitioning of 2,182 marginalized girls into formal education, Link Community Development has embarked on training headteachers and teachers on how to handle these girls in their respective classrooms.
The training which is slated for three days in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region seeks to enhance the knowledge of the teachers on how to co-operate with the marginalized girls in their various schools.
Speaking to A1 Radio, the Project Director of Link Community Development, Faara Joachim noted that 46 participants (teachers and headteachers) were tasked to go through the training and have first-hand information on how to handle and teach these girls.
He said, “This workshop objective is to shaping teachers and headteachers into understanding the whole transition period, we are going to work together and dialog on ways to smoothly and successfully transition these girls as they move to the new school situation.”
Mr. Joachim stressed that the organization will also train the teachers on how to handle and welcome the girls back to the schools.
“So we will be discussing on issues regarding teaching and leading, and how to welcome these girls back to schools; creating an enabling environment, child protection, and safeguarding issues. We will also be looking at how to handing girl with a disability that we have trained as well as issues of inclusive education because these girls are coming from very marginalized groups and they are now coming to formal schools system.”
Link Community Development since 2018 has been working in 85 communities in four districts on how vulnerable girls can be transitioned to formal education through a project dubbed “Strategic Approach to Girls’ Education (STAGE)” in the Upper East Region.
Some of the teachers however expressed their readiness to help these girls to achieve their greater heights.
Source: a1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|David Azure|Ghana
