A scene during the donation
POS Foundation, a human rights civil society organisation, as part of activities marking its 20th anniversary has presented various items to the Kaneshie Senior High Technical School and Kaneshie West 1 Basic School in Accra.
Both schools received dustbins, cartons of sanitary pads, toiletries and ceiling fans worth GH₵25,000.
The donation also forms part of activities marking the Foundation’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Executive Secretary of POS Foundation, Jonathan Osei Owusu, said the organisation had over the past 20 years championed human rights, gender-based violence advocacy, and played a key role in the Justice for All Programme in Ghana’s prisons.
He urged students to practise good personal hygiene and further encouraged them to become hygiene ambassadors in their homes, schools and communities.
Precious Klu, Project Officer in charge of Gender and Inclusion, encouraged the pupils to speak out against gender-based violence by reporting perpetrators to authorities.
She also used the opportunity to encourage them to keep their school environments clean at all times.
Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Kaneshie, Superintendent of Police Alice Harlley, on her part, urged the students to report any form of abuse to their teachers, stressing that “it is not true that you will die when you report people who abuse you.”
Municipal Chief Executive of Ablekuma Central, Frank Nkansah, announced plans to institute a monthly Sanitation Day for schools within the area to promote environmental cleanliness.
He commended POS Foundation for giving back to the community and appealed to businesses within the municipality to invest in local development.
Assistant Headmistress of Kaneshie Senior High Technical School, Regina Gyampomaa Oduro, said the school was delighted to benefit from the gesture, adding: “We promise that we will not allow our bodies to be touched anyhow.”
The POS Foundation is a leading human rights civil society organisation in Ghana that focuses its activities in the areas of Human Rights Advocacy, Access to Justice, Law/Policy Reforms, Youth Development, Gender and Inclusion, Cross-border Trade, Research, and Social Accountability.
With a track record of successfully implemented projects, the organisation has strategically positioned itself as a force to reckon with in many fields, including working on projects in six (6) West African countries (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire).
The POS Foundation facilitates the state-led Justice For All Programme which seeks to adjudicate remand/pretrial cases to reduce prison overcrowding by setting up special mobile in-prison courts.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak