Basic school girls in the Berekum Municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region have attended a workshop dubbed ‘‘Promoting Technical/Vocational Education for Girls.”
Ms Augustina Amo-Asare, the National Co-ordinator of Women in Technical Education (WITE) of the Ghana Education Service (GES), stressed that the days when parents made their girls to engage in trading in order to secure education for their brothers were over.
She, therefore, urged parents to enrol and retain their daughters in school while encouraging girls to take their technical and vocational courses seriously so that they would come out as professional craftswomen.
The WITE organises regular career counselling for basic school girls and encourages them to pursue non-traditional technical trades such as motor vehicle mechanics, welding, fabrication, plumbing, auto body repairs and spraying.
‘‘When we take a look around us now, we can see that everything was made by the technical man or woman, such as buildings, chairs, tables, microphones, roofing and others. In fact, all the development going on is done by the technical brains of both men and women,” Ms Amo-Asare emphasised.
Two role models, Ms Esther Niriwaah, a Mechanical Engineer of ABTS Company Limited, at Berekum and Mrs Antionnette Amoako, an Electrical Engineer of the Volta River Authority (VRA) office, in Sunyani, gave their respective testimonies about the study of science and encouraged the girls to pursue their chosen careers.
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