- Hillary Clinton
As in most of Africa, it is the women of Ghana who hold the key to progress and to change, yet many of its young women are deprived of education to help their parents, siblings and members of their extended family survive. They often do the physically demanding work like walking for miles for water, planting and tending the crops and looking after animals.
Most will marry young and have children at a young age. At best they will have a limited education and their daughters will carry on this depressing cycle, often made worse by poor health, sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS and early pregnancy. And so the cycle continues.
"College for Ama" (CofA) attempts to break this cycle. It aims to change the attitudes of intelligent and gifted young women so they understand the advantages of a better education; getting married later; acquiring more wealth and prosperity, and thus having fewer children who they can look after better including supporting them through secondary and higher education.
Because there is a great need for girls in Ghana to break out of the spiral of poverty...