Mampong (Ash), April 26, GNA - Care International, an International Non- Government Organisation (NGO), will as from next month intensify its support for girl-child education through the introduction of a project dubbed: "Innovation for Marginalized Girls' Education" (IMAGE) in the Mampong Municipality and the Amansie West District.

The project, which is designed to increase the involvement of stakeholders to brainstorm and find out why many girls were not in school with a view to providing a remedy, is aimed, among others, at improving girls enrollment, retention and performance in school. It will be implemented with the support of Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative, based in the United Stated of America (USA).

Mr. Eric Balangtaa, Sales facilitator of Care International, responsible for Mampong Municipality, announced this on Friday at a Girl-Child Education stakeholders meeting at Mampong in the Ashanti Region.

It was attended by 15 participants drawn from the Municipal education office, the beneficiary communities and the Municipal Assembly. The meeting was aimed, among others at creating more awareness among stakeholders on the role expected of them in the successful implementation of responsibility for Education of Girls' Active Learning (REGAL II) project.

Mr. Balangtaa, stated that, REGAL II which was launched on February 13 this year, after the successful completion of REGAL I in the same month was geared towards improving gender equality in basic schools in 40 communities in the Mampong Municipality and the Amansie West District. According to him, REGAL II project was designed to provide gender sensitive recreational and sanitary facilities in order to sustain girls' interest in school.

He explained that the meeting which would be held quarterly would update stakeholders' knowledge on the activities of REGAL II and also provide a forum for them to make input into the implementation process of the project so as to meet the challenges confronting it. According to him, so far 3,500 girls from the two districts have benefited from the project and that a total of GH¢66,000 has been spent by Care International on the project with the support from General Electric Foundation in the USA

In an address read for him, Mr. Haruna Oppong-Boateng, the outgoing District Chief Executive for Sekyere West advised participants to attached importance to the meetings and be punctual in order to promote girl-child education in the municipality.