Girls Growth and Development

Tools for Self Reliance has been working with GIGDEV for over ten years on a purely tool-sending basis, however we are now moving towards a project-based approach which aims to combine tool sending with the provision of a skills and training scheme.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
[1] To provide job opportunities for marginalized girls through the provision of income generating skills, home management, food processing and nutrition, so that they will grow to be self-reliant, responsible and productive members in their communities.

[2] To promote the spiritual, mental and socioeconomic development of girls.

[3] To hold educational programmes and literacy classes for GIGDEV personnel and group leaders, with special attention given to the former conflict zones of Northern Region, Ghana.

[4] Help girls to realise their potential, and develop their talents, to increase awareness on girl’s development issues [Adolescent period], and to reintegrate them into the national human resources agenda.

[5] To establish a community information resource centre which would serve girls and the community profitably.

[6] To encourage self-reliance, fund raising activities, as well as lobbying for funds such as grants and donations.

[7] To emphasize on the rights of the child, gender awareness and help raise the literacy rate of girls in the Northern Region of Ghana.

[8] To collaborate with other youth and women’s organisations, and encourage girls in tradition and culture.

[9] To adopt brilliant but needy marginalized girls and provide relevant logistic support to enhance their education, so as to make them useful and productive citizens.

[10] To educate girls on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS awareness.