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April 30, 2017

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CHILD MARRIAGE IN SISSALA EAST: A MYTH OR REALITY?

child marriage has of late being an issue in the air waves of sissala land. Many organizations and NGOs have shown their displeasure on the phenomenon. Anyone who is interested in sissala land can confirm to you there are so many write-ups on the said issue of late. But let us face the reality as a people, is this actually happening in the land? Could it not be a pass practice? Are we not mistaking something else for child marriage? What do we mean when we say child marriage? Until these are all well explained we can not have a clear picture of what is going on. Child marriage can only be well understood if we have a clear understanding of what marriage is and who a child is. According to the UN charter on the rights of children, a child is a person below the age of eighteen (18). Marriage on the other hand is a union between two families, where both agree for a man and woman to live together as husband and wife having met some conditions setup by the institution. We can at this point...

A Day I will Never Forget

Exactly 7years ago today in 2010, I was travelling to the jungle on a hunting expedition in Sissala East, Upper West Region. Upon reaching a village called Vamboi near Wellembelle, about 30km from Tumu the District Capital, a large crowd had gathered on the compound of a particular house whilst few of them jumped into the road to stop me. I pulled over. An elderly woman run to me and spoke in Sissali. I understood her alright but asked her to speak to me in twi since my sissali wasn't good. She narrated the ordeal a young woman who had been in labour overnight was going through and how she might die if I refused to transport her to Tumu District Hospital. They had tried fruitlessly for hours without delivery, she had complications and there was no ambulance and no vehicle to transport her to Tumu District Hospital for medical attention. She begged me to save the lives of this woman and her unborn baby. I couldn't turn down the request apparently so I agreed to use my private c...

RURAL SMILE FOUNDATION DONATES SANITARY PADS TO SCHOOL GIRLS.

Rural Smile Foundation ;a newly established NGO headquartered in Ejura town and in the Ashanti Region of Ghana has brought a sigh of relief to girls in one school.As part of its first and official intervention after coming into being,the organization donated an appreciable number of sanitary pads to girls in a selected school and seeks to soon scale it to other schools in the municipality especially those in the most deprived areas. The beneficiary school Haramain Sharafain Islamic Basic School located in the municipality of Ejura/Sekyeredumasi has a population of 478 with boys being 233 and girls being 245. In all 26 of the girls ranging from primary 6 to J.H.S 2 benefited from the donations,with every girl going home with two packs of the sanitary pad each. The donations was done by the Chief Executive Officer of the organization in the person of Mr.Abubakar Saddique Ahmed. Besides a practicing nurse by name Salamatu Ahmed helped in the donations on behalf of the organiza...

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