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Increasing Girls Access Project (IGAP)
"If you educate a man, you educate an individual, if you educate a woman you educate a nation." Dr Kwegir Aggrey
Is an intervention by BASICS to stop the decline in the number of girls who are accessing school in Chorkor.
Chorkor is a fishing community in one of the most impoverished areas of Accra where children are easily drawn into child labour due
to cultural practices and poverty of the people.
Women who are overburdened with responsibilities for the care and nurturing of their families, often transfer
the burden onto the girls, thus removing them from school and into labour that often puts them at risk of serious harm.
Girls access to school is greatly hindered by many socio-economic factors, topmost being child labour, child trafficking,
sexual exploitation, teenage pregnancy and lack of academic vocational skills. Increasing Girls Access Programmes (Igap)
is intended to increase girl child enrollment to our programmes since girls constitute 44% of our beneficiaries.
A large number of girl children in our programme area are being raised by single mothers who are head of their households.
Many of these women are also victims of teenage pregnancy and child labor. The women are not prepared to bear the additional
expenses involved in sending their children to school, such as feeding them breakfast or lunch or paying school enrollment fees.
This set-back can affect a child in many ways. Either she will be forced to quit school and return to work, to to school
hungry or become a victim of sexual exploitation which may result in teenage pregnancy.
Many are victims of child trafficking and sold to be domestic servants in house girls. Under the umbrella of Nana's House' an
intervention center, these girls will be given healthy constructive alternatives to their situations.
Other BASICS projects.
NANA'S HOUSE
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