By Thomas Nsowah Adjei
One thousand Junior High School Girls selected from the 45 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Education Directorates in the Ashanti region have received skills training in Information, Communication and Technology, ICT at various centres in Kumasi.
The training forms part of a conscious policy by the Ministry of Communication and Digitalization to bridge the ICT knowledge gap between girls and boys in the country to prepare them for a brighter future.
The Sector Minister, Mrs Ursela Owusu Ekuful has visited the five of the training centres to familiarise herself and interact with the girls and to find out the progress of the Training.
The training is being implemented and facilitated by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication, GIFEC a division under the Communication Ministry.
The programme among others also seeks to demystify and bridge the gap in the ICT between boys and girls as well as literate and illiterate.
The participants were engaged in five days of training and the best 10 out of the training centres would have their schools built with ICT laboratories fully equipped with computers to enhance Training and learning of the subject.
Their instructors will also be fully trained to enhance their knowledge.
Centres visited include the Kumasi Secondary Technical, Pentecost Girls Senior High, SDA Senior High, Serwaa Nyarko Senior High and the Anglican Senior High.
The Communications Minister Mrs Ursela Owusu Ekuful was delighted about the success and enthusiasm shown by the girls and promised to expand the programme from the basic to the University level.
Some of the girls shared their experiences with the Minister and thanked her and the government for the initiative which they described as “a game changer in their lives”.
