Help Us to Help Others

"We are already doing our best in Ghana and we seek partnership with all those who have concern for the low level of education among females, especially girls of school-going age.
Any form of support is welcome.
Sometimes a parents lack of money to buy a school uniform may prevent his daughter from obtaining education at the primary school level."
Let’s support female education.

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PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES

Our existing programmes and activities are as follows:

Promotion of girls education in the Basic Education programme in Ghana

This is the primary programme of the Organisation. Sankofa International creates opportunities for needy girls of school-going age to enrol or continue in basic school education. Priority is given to rural communities.

The assistance Sankofa International provides include grants for fees, books, uniform, footwear and other materials. Beneficiaries that are able to continue to the tertiary level are sponsored by way of grants for tuition and examination fees.

Promotion of female teacher education

As a source of motivation for girls, Sankofa International has set up Annual Best Female Teacher-Trainee Award in one Teacher Training Colleges. Award recipients strive to motivate girls in basic education schools where they would be posted after their training

Sponsorship of female students in Senior secondary Schools

Sankofa International also sponsors a number of female students in Senior Secondary Schools. Scholarship Funds have been established in 16 Girls Senior High Schools in Ghana

Heads of Girls Secondary Schools Organisation

Has organised the Heads of all the 26 Senior Girls High Schools in Ghana into a formidable identity known as Forum for Heads of Girls High Schools (FOHGHS

Sponsorship of Female Students in Overseas Universities and Colleges

Sankofa International sponsors annually well-qualified Ghanaian female students (one or two) in overseas tertiary institutions. Beneficiaries do come back to help in national building.

Sankofa International has set up a Scholarship Fund for female students at the University of Ghana, the premier university in Ghana.

Development Education Seminars

Sankofa International organises development education seminars for rural communities, especially women.

Heads of Girls Senior High Schools in Ghana

At Fiesta Royale Hotel,ACCRA
14th July, 2007

This photograph of all the Heads of Girls Senior High Schools in Ghana was taken at the Workshop organised and funded by Sankofa International in 2007. Seated in the middle is Her Ladyship Justice Georgina T. Wood, Chief Justice of Ghana and Hon Hajia Alima Mahama, Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, Ghana. In the middle of the backrow is Sir Fosuaba A Mensah Banahene, Executive Chairman of Sankofa International.

Under Sankofa International's support, the group has now been organised into a formal entity called Forum for Heads of Girls Senior High Schools in Ghana (FOHGSHS). the Forum is now engaged in a variety of activities helping to promote and enhance the education girls in Senior High Schools.

The next program set up for the Forum by Sankofa International is to lead them into Education Partnerships, a concept that brings School Heads into Partnerships with Business Communities

Gana Senior High School

“Sankofa International which has a mandate to support female education in Ghana ensures that no student in our school is sent away because she cannot afford to pay her school fee. Currently, forty-six students are being sponsored through a Fund set up by Sankofa International in our school. Many of the students testify that they could not have gone through their Senior High School education without the support of Sankofa International. We are grateful to Sankofa International.”

-Rev Sr. Janis Gbiel, Headmistress, St. Francis Girls Senior High School, Jirapa, Ghana.