Female literacy is one of the key interventions pursued by Women’s Health to Wealth (WHW) to help transform the lives of women and girls in our areas of operation in Ghana’s Ashanti region. Currently, middle school (here, junior high) is the highest level of educational attainment for fully half of the girls in WHW’s area, which is centered in Ashanti’s…
Following our training of our new Girls’ Club facilitators Girls’ Club meetings in all 10 junior high schools began in earnest in the second week of June 2015, once they had been supplied with writing supplies and other materials by Women’s Health to Wealth. As of end-June, the 10 Clubs had a total membership of 209 girls between 12-16 years…
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Women’s Health to Wealth, a non-governmental organisation operating in the Ashanti and Bono regions, has donated 48 P.E.T. small carts, specially designed wheelchairs, to the Ashanti Regional Education Directorate. The donation aims to support children with mobility challenges, enabling them to pursue their education with dignity and respect. This initiative forms part of the organisation’s efforts to improve the health and…
Introduction Sexual expression is an essential component of healthy human development (Freud, Maslow et al as cited by Zimbardo 1992). However when this expression happens in an unguided manner in young adolescents, the result is the high rates of pregnant teens and teen moms. The high and unacceptable rates of teenage pregnancy of 99 in 1000 live births in the…
On the 55th anniversary of Ghana’s Republic Day on July 1, 2015, Women’s Health to Wealth used this public holiday to hold the first in its series of Adolescent Reproductive Health Fora (ARHF) for female students of the Simms Senior High School in the Kwabre East district of the Ashanti Region. The theme for the forum was “Be a Strong…
Mary Dufie, 14, is a Grade 7 pupil at Worakose Junior High School and a member of the WHW Girls’ Club in the Ashanti region’s Bosomtwe district. Mary (not her real name) is the only girl in her family, born between her two male siblings. Mary’s parents operate a drinking bar where the top-selling drink is the locally brewed drink…
The health of women of all ages is an essential need for sustainable urban development. Research among adolescent girls has shown the importance of education and emotional support in girls’ understanding that the onset of menstruation is a healthy and hopeful part of growing up. In Akan society, the transition of a girl into womanhood, marked by menarche, is an…