IBIS
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR RECEIVES PEACE AWARD IN GHANA
Ms. Janet Adama Mohammed to the left together
with Award recipient 2009 Ms. Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, Executive
Director of the Ark Foundation in the middle and Ms. Julie
Furuta-Toy Charge D’affairs at the US Embassy during
the Award ceremony
.
On January 21st 2010 Ms. Janet Adama Mohammed, IBIS
Programme Director, was presented with the Martin Luther King
Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice, by the U.S. Embassy
in Ghana, for her inspiring work for peace and human rights.
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MODEL
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN SAWLA OFFICIALLY OPENED:
The new girl’s model school in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba
District, Northern Region, has been designed to tackle the
challenges to education faced by young girls and to showcase
how to give them a solid foundation for the future.
It is a big day for the 70 girls, their teachers and the
headmistress. Their new school ‘The Model
Girls Junior High School’ is finally ready to be inaugurated
- the contractors only finished the last touches the day before.Sawla-Tuna-Kalba
district is one of the most deprived districts in Ghana, only
between 25 and 30 % of the children passing the Basic Education
Certificate Examination after primary 6 are girls. 70 girls
between 12 and 17 years have already been enrolled at the
school. They are now seated under the marquise in their bright
new uniforms eagerly awaiting the arrival of the dignitaries,
invited guests and the community members.
IBIS
BRINGS GLOBAL ACTION WEEK TO KONO DISTRICT : 20th - 26th
April 2009
For the first time, Global Action Week activities
were held in Kono District, Sierra Leone. Global Action Week
is a world-wide advocacy celebration focusing on education
and sponsored in Sierra Leone by the Education for All Coalition.
Previously, no activities have been carried out in Kono District,
but this year IBIS sponsored and implemented several activities
in collaboration with the Kono District Office of the Ministry
of Education, and four local organisations dedicated to education
and youth.
FROM
WAAKYE SELLER TO PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN
Hajia Musa Ali has defied her social inheritance and
is now to advise the President of Ghana. She has had great benefit
of the training in democratic skills she has received from IBIS
and especially the self-confidence, she has developed on this
basis. 56 years-old Hajia Musa Ali was once one
of those street vendors: For more than ten years she had a
small food stall where she prepared and sold the Ghanaian
rice meal ‘waakye’.
STRENGTHENING
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES ENSURES EDUCATION
50 School Management Committees in the Brong Ahafo region
in Ghana are being trained on how to efficiently manage their
schools and ensure the quality of their children’s education.
The parents and teachers, all members of the School
Management Committee in Asibrem, were quite shocked, after
returning from a school visit which had been arranged as a
part of a two-days training programme.
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