Ahsa Life, through her Pearlpia Sporting Club has seen it very innovative and vital to promote Girl Child Education using sports. This initiative has been part of its tendencies to ensure Gender Equality in Ghana and beyond. This has taken effect from the rural areas of Tamale and is already benefitting many female children within the areas and group of target.
Ghana, as other existing global bodies and government has adopted various United Nations conventions and declarations geared towards promoting gender equality and to mainstream gender perspectives in all spheres of the society. A clear example attesting to this fact is some provisions made in the 1992 constitution of Ghana which provides constitutional protection for all persons before the law. Section 17 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana prohibits discrimination based on gender, race, color, ethnic origin, religion, creed or social or economic status. Sub-section 3 of section 27 provides that, women shall be guaranteed equal rights to training and promotion without any impediments from any person (Constitution of Ghana, 1992).
Ahsa Life through her Sporting Club, seeks to address the issue of gender inequality taking seeds in the various parts of Ghana today. The project shall also chase the following aims.
Provide room for female children to unconsciously uncover their roles in social, economic, political and educational contexts and building their own nation.
Enlighten women on the need to be useful leaders holding higher offices in education, politics and socio-economics.
Be the means to empower female children and adolescents to desire renowned positions as, heads of states, Members of Parliaments, Ministers, heads of educational and other greater institutions, celebrated economists, and other noble professions by the use of sports.
The focus of the project will also be to assist the Ministry of Education in training and developing competent and capable women population in the near future. Whilst encouraging and implementing basic educational skills for female children, the proposed project also focuses on boosting the confident level of young girls deprived in the Tamale rural areas today.
Referring back to the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana, Sub-section 1 of section 25 states, “All persons shall have the right to educational opportunities and facilities…” This means, those young females rejected by the society to live a life outside education are denied the right to formal education.
Considering the greater consequences of ignoring young girls in the society, Ahsa Life has made it a priority to search and fetch all female children stranded in the streets in the rural areas of Tamale. Since children have a greater interest for fun and recreation, Ahsa
Life is been able to trap young females into her Sporting Club. Currently, we have 327 young girls between the ages of 8-17 years in the camp of the club. Although these young girls are convinced to be trained in sports as we usually do, we have also built classrooms where formal education takes place every day. We have well trained teachers who teach these children how to read and write. Every classroom is provided with ultramodern learning facilities which enhances teaching and learning.
Regularly, we organize seminars and workshops for these girls, and provide them with brochures which contains the struggles and successful stories of some prominent women celebrated locally and internationally, all of which are meant to boost the confidence of these young girls to believe in themselves and have the can-do spirit to compete their male counterparts in the society. This is our way of ensuring a future of capable and competent women in the Ghanaian society, especially Tamale.
As we are still in the search for young females from poor homes in the rural areas of Tamale, we dream to see greater positive impacts of the initiative on the lives of female children in particular and women in general who live in the rural areas of Tamale. We are very excited to play such a unique role in achieving the sustainable development goals of Ghana and West Africa.