{"id":1044267,"date":"2022-04-04T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T09:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/04\/vodafone-ghana-foundation-equips-50-girls-with-recycling-and-creativity-skills-business-news\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T09:50:46","slug":"vodafone-ghana-foundation-equips-50-girls-with-recycling-and-creativity-skills-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/04\/vodafone-ghana-foundation-equips-50-girls-with-recycling-and-creativity-skills-business-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Ghana Foundation Equips 50 Girls With Recycling And Creativity Skills | Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As part of efforts to commemorate this year\u2019s International Women\u2019s Month and Global Recycling Month, Vodafone Ghana Foundation through its monthly Birthday Stars initiative has engaged female youth in a recycling activity and creativity challenge to create new products using waste products.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The event forms part of activities to encourage young girls to take up STEM related courses and help recognize, and celebrate, the importance recycling plays in preserving Ghana\u2019s precious primary resources and securing the future of the earth as a whole. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Special guests for the programme included Rev. Dr. Joyce Aryee, Tracy \u2018\u2019Sarkcess\u2019\u2019 Owusu Addo, and Kobby Kyei. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Speaking at the event, Country Lead for Vodafone Ghana Foundation, Amaris Nana Adjei Perbi said the project brought together different girls from various background; physically challenged, school dropouts, vocational, academics and professionals.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cTo climax our March born birthday Stars project and to celebrate the International Women\u2019s Month and Global Recycling Month, we have brought together 50 different girls from various background from physically challenged, school dropouts, vocational, academics and professionals to teach them STEM related activities and recycling projects. Due to this productive programme, they have been able to create things that they couldn\u2019t thought of. They have created 3D printing of various of products as well as recycling waste materials to construct dustbins, washing basins and others\u201d. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cApart from the 3-day training prior to this creativity and recycling challenge, we are also mentoring them to come up with their own companies to earn a living out of the tremendous things they have created. We are happy that this programme has been able to equip these girls especially the dropouts to invent their own materials. We are excited to mentor them and push their agenda to be fruitful in the society in which they dwell\u201d, he added.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Director of Africa STEM Disability Inclusion Foundation, Mrs. Victoria Osei Mensah, said it was necessary to bridge the gap between Persons with Disability and STEM, hence commended Vodafone Ghana Foundation for the initiative and partnership.\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe believe STEM education and recycling is the gateway to Ghana and Africa, contributing to its future. It reduces employment, preserves the environment and promote sustainability in the field of work,\u201d she said <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On her part, Dean of Engineering for Academic City University College, Dr. Lucy Agyapong noted that the initiative by Vodafone Ghana Foundation is phenomenal. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe were privileged when Vodafone Ghana Foundation approached us to partner this programme.\u00a0 We were very happy to make our facilities available to these young girls to be able to get a practical hands-on experience and to build things from recyclable materials for three days. This is because, we are a strong advocator of everything green and this initiative is very much similar to how we teach here in Academic City.\u201d \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She added \u201cWe are glad to have these 50 girls here to learn and to create things out of nothing. I couldn\u2019t be prouder to see both the abled and disabled come together to create all forms of innovative solutions for the development of our country. What Vodafone Ghana Foundation is doing is phenomenal and we are blessed to be part of this wonderful project. I encourage that we take this to the younger girls as well to equip them in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering and all other STEM related courses\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Peacefmonline.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. 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