The activities on the support for women farmers in climate-smart farming in the various communities in northern Ghana are supported by the World Food Programme and the Global Fund for Women.
Executive Director for Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-Gh), Hajia Alima Sagito Saeed has called for active involvement of women as role models to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Referencing goals five and 10 which target gender equality, she said it was important for women who survived various degrees of inequalities, to act act as role models in their communities to serve as inspiration to other young women who aspired for greatness.
Hajia Alima made this call at this year’s annual summit of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), organized by the University for Development Studies (UDS) Local Chapter and supported by SWIDA-Gh, Songtaba and RAINS.
She said it was unfortunate that most women who had escaped various forms of abuses did not want to advocate for the right of others.
“If you’re privileged to have escaped child marriage, when you get back to your community, act as a role model to justify why young women should be given the opportunity to access education” Hajia Alima emphasized.
For her part, Hajia Iddrisu Mariam Bugala, CEO of Girls to Women Foundation, said the low representation of women in various leadership positions required that women rose to the occasion, by being advocates against issues that impede their education in major decision-making processes in the country.
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