Ensuring girls’ rights to education in Ghana

Our Humanist Action: Ghana partner organization, Songtaba, has been cultivating relationships with the people in Northern Ghana, working toward ensuring girls' rights to education. This is a success story. This father was planning to trade his daughter to be another man's wife in exchange for a wife for his eldest son. Songtaba, with the assistance of HA: Ghana staff, persuaded the father to allow his daughter to enter school instead. Using culturally sensitive tact, staff communicated that the son was able to find a wife independently, and that the family would benefit from the daughter getting an education.

The father is now an advocate for education in his community. He has all four daughters in school, and he is very happy that people who cared were willing to step in to address this cultural issue.

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