{"id":1222470,"date":"2022-10-12T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/doreen-avio-visits-students-of-luom-presbyterian-basic-school-on-international-day-of-girl-child\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:13:39","slug":"doreen-avio-visits-students-of-luom-presbyterian-basic-school-on-international-day-of-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/doreen-avio-visits-students-of-luom-presbyterian-basic-school-on-international-day-of-girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Media personality Doreen Avio has paid a visit to the Luom Presbyterian Basic School as part of the International Day of the Girl Child celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Her visit to the school located in the Shai Osudoku district of the Greater Accra Region was to, among other reasons, extend help to the students, especially the girls and talk to them about the importance of education.<\/p>\n<p>The host of JoyNews\u2019 \u2018Let\u2019s Talk \u2019 observed with worry the challenges facing students, a situation that prevents them from accessing quality education, feeding and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KVJpbIrHpLU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"International Day for the Girl child celebration at Luom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVJpbIrHpLU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>She, therefore, called on organisations and philanthropists to support girls in schools located in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of us complain daily about the hardship in Accra, Kumasi and major cities across the country. But from what I observed during my visit to the school, I realised that people in rural areas are mostly sidelined and left out in terms of development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe there is more to be done to support the Luom Presbyterian School, for instance, because they lack almost everything a school needs to thrive. The girls here lack sanitary products, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be a wakeup call to stakeholders and I hope my visit here would highlight their challenges,\u201d Doreen Avio told <strong>MyJoyOnline.com <\/strong>in an interview.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186809 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><figcaption>Doreen Avio addressing the school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The International Day of the Girl Child is observed globally on every October 11. The observation supports more opportunities for girls and increases awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based on their gender.<\/p>\n<p>This inequality includes areas such as access to education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care and protection from discrimination, violence against women and forced child marriage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-5-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186811 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><figcaption>Doreen had a talk with the pupils under a shed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Through her Doreen Avio Foundation, the host of #MatterDey on Hitz FM partnered with the School Support Programme (SSP) to engage the JHS 3 students ahead of their Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE).<\/p>\n<p>She also interacted with the headmaster and his deputy to find out some of the challenges of the school, which include desks for their classrooms, washrooms and lack of transportation for students who travel long distances to access education.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, the students gathered under a shed for the talk.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-6-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186813 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Doreen Avio also used the opportunity to educate the students on the importance of education and encouraged them to take their studies seriously.<\/p>\n<p>She also advised them to stay away from sexually-related activities and focus more on their books since most of the students were in adolescent age.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-10-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186815 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><figcaption>Doreen Avio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The students who were so excited about the conversations asked pertinent questions about how they could achieve academic excellence, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In a lovely fashion, Doreen and the school children had some refreshments after which was a distribution of sanitary pads for the girls amid the skyrocketing prices of the products on the market.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-7-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186817 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><figcaption>She shared her life story to encourage the pupils to pursue excellence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The teachers and students expressed profuse delight in the kind gesture shown by Doreen Avio. They asked that she visits them more often and also call on organisations to also support them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are more photos from the visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186818 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-9-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186822 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186824 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-8-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186827 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Doreen-Avio-Luom-Presby-Basic-School-3-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\" class=\"wp-image-10032186829 lazy\"  data- title=\"Doreen Avio visits students of Luom Presbyterian Basic School on International Day of Girl Child\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/doreen-avio-visits-students-of-luom-presbyterian-basic-school-on-international-day-of-girl-child\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media personality Doreen Avio has paid a visit to the Luom Presbyterian Basic School as part of the International Day of the Girl Child celebrations. 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