Plan Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has called for the strengthening of the nation’s educational system through the capacity building of teachers, the provision of better infrastructure and more text books to facilitate teaching and learning.

Mr Prem Shukla, Country Director of Plan Ghana, said the NGO’s priority was to provide quality education to all Ghanaians to ensure that people living in deprived areas had access to education.

He said Plan Ghana’s “More Project,” sought to provide more entrepreneurial training for the youth, especially those from rural and semi-urban areas, to become self-employed and help minimise rural-urban migration of the youth in search of non-existing white colour jobs.

Mr Shukla was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Thursday during the closing ceremony of Plan Ghana’s nine-day girls’ camp in Accra.

It was on the theme: “Aspiring to Inspire: Minimizing Unprepared Motherhood.”

He said the girl-child is equal to the boy-child, and further advised parents to give girls equal support as boys.

“Leave aside tradition and culture, but when you educate a girl, you educate the whole family and the whole society, but when you educate a boy, you educate an individual,” he stated.

The Country Director of the NGO recounted how his outfit had instituted 1,500 scholarship packages for girls, which would be boosted in the coming academic year.

“My greatest achievement is the satisfaction that Plan Ghana is able to reach more needy people and how to serve them, especially the young children,” he said.

Mr Shukla said Plan Ghana had sponsored brilliant but needy students from rural areas, with some of them becoming medical doctors and serving the nation.

He urged donor partners to bring in more resources, and assured them that, their resources would be effectively used for the benefit of the needy and deserving beneficiaries.

He added that organising the girls’ camp programme demonstrated Plan Ghana’s commitment to the development of the girl child; and also assured that, the programme targeted both boys and girls.

Plan Ghana, a child centred NGO has been working in Ghana since 1992, with the aim of helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, food security and protection.