Baci presenting a prize to a participant
The 2014 winner of TV3 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) pageant, Bentie Abigail Baciara, has taken her campaign against child marriage to Jirapa in the Upper West Region.
Bentie Abigail Baciara, popularly known as Baci, ambassador for ‘End Child Marriage’ project, has been leading the crusade on girl-child empowerment initiative around the country.
The celebrity goes round schools, where she interacts with the target groups through various approaches such as talks, quizzes, debates and sketches to press down her message to the girls to say no to child marriage.
Winners of the various quizzes and debates receive prizes which include branded exercise books which has Baci’s portrait embossed on them and other stationery and ‘T’ shirts.
According to her, about 110 selected girls from primary and junior high schools in the Upper East & West Regions had undergone orientation to equip them with skills to also encourage other girls in their respective communities.
Baci further disclosed that the Upper West Region ranks second in child marriages after the Upper East, and for which every effort must be made to end the practice.
She was happy that a number of parents were beginning to realise the importance of education and had also joined in the crusade against child marriage.
The ‘End Child Marriage’ ambassador explained that in each district, the team interacts with opinion leaders on the issue and together they spread the message to the schools.
She lauded UNICEF and Action Aid Ghana for sponsoring the project, adding that it would be extended to the Brong Ahafo Region in the coming weeks.
By Solomon Ofori