By Jeanie M. Barnett | Executive Director
We're raising funds to send 10 girls in our scholarship program to summer camp this year. And we need your support!
Sponsored by the College of Ama, a Ghanaian organization that provides education enrichment programs for underprivileged teen girls in Ghana, this year's camp will bring together 30 girls at the University of Ghana, where they will spend two weeks learning, creating and having fun.
Girls attending the camp hail mostly from rural villages in the Central and Western regions of Ghana, where schools are fewer and poorer than those in urban areas, and female teenage drop-out rates and early pregnancies are high.
Attendees live on campus for the duration of the camp in a female dormitory and are supervised by women employees at the university. All meals are provided, as well as travels costs for a field trip. One year, the girls took a field trip to the capital city, Accra, to learn more about how the government works. The girls visited with members of Parliament, and even had a surprise encounter and photo-op with former UN Ambassador Kofi Annan, who happened to be there that same day.Building self-confidence is one of the camp's primary objectives. The camp's faculty include volunteer instructors from the university, along with other counseling professionals, who oversee the girls' studies and activities.
In 2012, WomensTrust sent eight scholarship girls to CofA's summer camp. The girls were selected because of the extra tutoring they needed in their primary subjects in order to pass their high school entrance exams.
“CofA taught me to be proud of myself and not be intimidated by Maths,”said one of the girls after her experience at the camp.
This year, we want to sponsor 10 of our scholarship girls to attend the camp, which starts July 25. At a cost of $300 per student, we're aiming to raise a total of $3000 by July 1. Please help us send our girls to camp this summer!
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