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Tamale, Ghana – Telecom behemoth, MTN Ghana is still supporting Ghana’s Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation to provide ICT skills training to one hundred thousand (100,000) primary and junior high school girls across several regions of the country.
The partnership has been viewed as one of the biggest forces ever to drive ICT education at the basic level of the country’s educational sector.
Dubbed “Girls in ICT Project” and being implemented through the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), an agency under the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, another batch of 1,000 girls in the Northern Region have just completed their training.
Trainees were selected from Mion District, Karaga District, Tolon District, Kumbungu District, Savelugu Municipal, Tamale Metro, Nanton District, Sagnarigu Municpal, and Kpandai District.
The rest are Tatali District, Gushegu District, Nanumba South, Nanumba North, Yendi Municipal, Saboaba District, and Zabzugu District.
The girls were introduced to ICT programmmes such as coding, software development, cyber security, web design and data analysis among others at various training centres in Tamale and the other districts’ capitals.
All the girls are to be awarded with certificates of participation whereas the best girl in each district gets ICT lab set up in the schools they attend.
Also, the top 100 girls would each be given brand new laptops and the top three (3) girls would be awarded cash prizes and plaques.
The project among others, seeks to teach young girls across the country some basic ICT skills so as to prepare them for future career choices.
It is also part of the government’s strategies to ensure that Ghana achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5.
In June, a total of 1,000 primary and junior high school girls were selected from seven districts in the Savannah Region and trained in the aforementioned computer programmes.
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful who toured the training centres in Tamale on Friday, praised the girls for their show of enthusiasm towards acquiring knowledge and skills in ICT.
She encouraged the girls to take the skills they had acquired seriously because they would help them along their course of academic progression irrespective of their choice of profession in future.
The Girls in ICT project is also supported by the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence, ATC, German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and KODRIS Africa.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Kusiele Ziem
