Girls
making media Ghana is a project that seeks to empower most especially the girl
child is an initiative of Plan West Africa with support from Plan
International. The project kicked started in the first month of the year 2010.
The club has its membership spread seven secondary schools in the Volta and
eastern regions of Ghana.
Two of
our club members in the year 2011 part took in a round-table discussion in New
Delhi, India.
The club
on a periodic base organizes various training workshops for it members across
the various schools. Facilitators (professional) from various media outlets of
the nation on regularly base attend these workshops to share their experiences
with clubbers.
A
clubber in the person of Miss Ndanu Harriet is the face of Plan International’s
flagship project “because I am a girl “
Within a
period of two years, the club has won two international awards; prominent among
these awards is the famous Ulrich Wickert awards (2012).
The club
again out of its established scholarship scheme has sponsored nine students to
read a Bachelor of Arts degree course in communications (journalism option) at
the prestigious School of Journalism, Ghana and one other student at Jayee
University College.
The club
equally boasts of a periodic newsletter. In this periodic newsletter, members
are encouraged to come out with their own “magnum opus” on any topic of
interest.
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