MCI Helps Sponsor First-ever Girls’ Forum in Central Accra Neighborhood

In mid-December, MCI helped facilitate the first forum for girls and young ladies in Nima-Maamobi East, at the heart of Ghana’s capital city, Accra. Coordinated and moderated by the Nima-based youth NGO Volunteers in Community Empowerment (VOiCE), the forum featured as presenters two young women role models from the community: Miss Khadija Abdul Samed, a student at the University of Ghana and a presenter at Radio Universe, and the forum Chairwoman, Miss Sumaya Issaka, a nurse.

The forum presented an opportunity to sensitize the 72 girls and young women in attendance to issues in the community of particular relevance to them, such as education, sanitation and hygiene, safety and community planning. Participants also voiced their concerns about those issues and proposed interventions to improve current conditions.

MCI Community Development Consultant Abdul Rashid Alhassan captured the spirit of this event in his report, VOiCE and MCI Hold First-ever Girls’ Forum in Nima-Maamobi Neighborhood, Accra, Ghana.