Provides young girls practical opportunities for industrial trade training and entrepreneurship skills building.

Provides young girls practical opportunities for industrial trade training and entrepreneurship skills building.

The field Manager of Women Economic Empowerment for Northern Ghana(WEE-NORTH), Dr. Nancy Drost has urged Parents to allow their young girls into Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs to bridge the gender inequality gap.

According to her, this would support young girls to work in the perceived male dominated field to proved the skills that they have acquired on the TVET field to motivate others young girls that sees TVET as male dominated field.

The programs would support young girls with the necessary skills that would help them to fit well into the job market and become entrepreneurs to also employed people rather than looking for jobs, “depending on government nowadays to get job is thought and so if they are trained it would help them to create jobs and also employ others”, she added.

Dr. Drost said WEE-NORTH provides young girls practical opportunities for industrial trade training and entrepreneurship skills building in order to participate in industry in north region.

Speaking on the theme “Embracing Equity Amongst University Community Members: Mainstreaming Gender Diversity In TaTu” to mark International Women’s Day she said that reduction of gender discrimination would help in achieving equity.

The Tamale Technical University (TaTu) were selected as the partner for this International Women’s Day celebration because they offer seven TVET programs and has produce about 300 young girls from WEE-NORTH, Dr. Drost said.

She added that about 2000 young girls has been trained to join the workforce in north region across the 55 districts to show that young girls can bridge the gender inequality gap when they are given the chance.

For his part, the Vice Chancellor of TaTu, Professor Braimah Abass said the collaboration with Wee-North for the past years have added more value to the TVET departments in the university.

WEE-NORTH had their fundings from Canadian Government, this support the University to deliver their mandate without much funding, they have renovated and provided equipments to some of the laboratories and workshops to achieved gender parity in the TVET field, professor Abass said.

He said that, child care center would be created in the university to support nursing mothers to full concentrate on their learning and prevent children from distracting class during lectures.

The center would provide good care takers to ensured that the children do not disturb their mothers and the entire class to help the nursing mothers to aquire the knowledge they are looking for, he said.

The Deen of International Programs and Institutional linkages of TaTu, Professor Adiza Sadik said the university has created a center for equal opportunities that would give opportunity to every student to study in a safe environment without sexual harassment.

Professor Adiza added that the purpose of this center is to protect the right of every student and lecturers to achieve gender parity in the institution.

Women are being discriminate due to their lack of voice to called for an action whenever they are discriminated or sexual harass, this has made some of the students to be absent from lecture, professor Adiza stated.

She urged all students and lecturers to report cases relating to discrimination and sexual harassment or any related case to the center for further investigation.