The Youth Harvest Foundation has formerly received a Hostel facility from SOCODEVI to be used as a remedial school hostel for vulnerable young girls from rural communities who have been admitted into the Youth Harvest Foundation Remedial School to improve their Senior High School grades.
The Youth Harvest Foundation remedial school is an initiative that was first initiated in 2014 to support young girls who escaped forced and child marriages and wanted to further their education. The school has since admitted and supported over 150 young vulnerable girls from rural communities in the Upper East Region to better their grades by providing them with free tuition, accommodation and other learning facilities.
The remedial school in addition to the free educational support also provide reproductive health lessons ,free sanitary pad and counselling services to prepare the students academically, mentally and psychologically to re-sit their failed core subjects with support from volunteered teachers.
This year, about 50 young and vulnerable girls will be admitted into the school from deprived rural communities to benefit from the free remedial school which starts from March to November, 2023 when they will sit for the private exams to be organised by WAEC.
The PROCED project with support from the the Government of Canada and SOCODEVI, a Non-governmental Organisation based in the Upper East Region with interest in improving access to higher valued markets for women involved in rice parboiling activities, Tuesday 21, March,2023, handed over a newly built accommodation facility fitted with beds and mattresses to be used as accommodation for female students who have been admitted into the Youth Harvest Foundation Girls Remedial school.
The support from SOCODEVI also forms part of its vision to achieve Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality, reduce inequalities and quality education.
By: Simon Agana Blessing/mywordfmonline.com