General News of Tuesday, 5 June 2018Source: ghananewsagency.orgNGO demands increased access of girls to TVETPlan International Ghana held a news conference on sexual abuse of girls and child marriagePlan International Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called for increased access to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for young girls to shield them from child marriage. The NGO noted that lack of education was a major driver of child marriage in the country and advocated the need to incorporate TVET into the larger national strategy to end child marriage in Ghana. In 2011, statistics indicated that 41.6 percent of girls with no education were married before age 18 compared to 4.7 percent of girls with secondary education. Again, statistics had it that child marriage had increased nationwide from 25.9 percent in 2006 to 27 percent in 2011. She called on the government to show more commitment to dealing with child marriage problems through deliberate actions and crack the whip on perpetrators.

Source: GhanaWeb June 05, 2018 17:03 UTC