Moving around rural Ghana, I often saw posters that read: "send your girl child to school". I also saw kids at Adenkrebi, under the direction of their teacher, perform a skit in which a girl wanted to go to school but her "father" (fellow student role playing) wouldn't let her. At the end, two male students teamed up, picked the child playing the father up off his feet, and carried him out the door announcing "we are going to arrest you because you will not let her go to school!" It was pretty classic.
I met a man working for an NGO that
helps girls. A lot of girls cannot
learn like the boys because after school they have to go home and help with the
cooking and cleaning, and by night it is too dark to do their studying. Also, a lot of girls, are "afraid
to be discovered" during certain times of the month at school because they
don't have the hygiene products.
If they have to cross a stream or river, they won't go, because
traditionally they are told they will contaminate it. So a lot of girls don't go to school as much as the
boys. He is working on awareness
there and it is fascinating.
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