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"Hope for the future"
GIRLS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT [GIGDEV]
ACTIVITIES
  1. Dressmaking and Embroidery
  2. Textile Designing and Printing (Batik, Tie & Dye, Screen Printing ect.)
  3. Home Management
  4. Hairdressing
  5. Cloth Weaving
  6. Local Smocks for Men & Women
  7. Food Processing and Preservation
  8. Soap, Talcum Powder and Pomade Making
  9. Catering and Nutrition
  10. Beads and Jewellery
  11. Door Mats and Bags
  12. Handicraft and Calabash Decoration
  13. Wall Mats Weaving
  14. Needle Work
  15. Backyard Gardening
  16. Block Molding
  17. Agric-base Industry (irrigation, poultry, animal rearing, tree planting and fish farming)
  18. Sheabutter and Groundnut oil extraction.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

[1] To provide job opportunities for marginalized girls through the provision of income generating skills, home management, food processing and nutrition, so that they will grow to be self-reliant, responsible and productive members in their communities.

[2]
To promote the spiritual, mental and socioeconomic development of girls.

[3] To hold educational programmes and literacy classes for GIGDEV personnel and group leaders, with special attention to former conflict zones of Northern Region, Ghana.

[4] Help girls to realised their potentials, and develop their talents, to increase awareness on girl's development issues [Adolescent period], and to reintegrate them into the national human resources agenda.

[5] To establish a community information resource center which would serve girls and the community profitably.

[6] To encourage self-reliance, fund raising activities, as well as lobbying for funds such as grants and donations.

[7] To emphasize on the rights of the child, gender awareness and help raise the literacy rate of girls in the Northern Region of Ghana.

[8] To collaborate with other youth and women organisations, and encourage girls on tradition and culture.

[9] To adopt brilliant but needy marginalized girls and provide relevant logistic support to enhance their education, so as to make them useful and productive citizens.

[10] To educate girls on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS awareness.


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