WOMEN'S GROUP STARTS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IN UWR (PAGE 21)

THE Network for Women’s Right in Ghana (NETRIGHT), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has started a membership drive in the Upper West Region.
In this regard, NETRIGHT in collaboration with another NGO based in Wa, the Centre for Rural Empowerment and Development, has organised an outreach programme for a number of women’s groups in the Wa Municipality.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Regional Focal Person of NETRIGHT, Mrs Helen Koranteng, commended the two NGOs for agreeing to put the three northern regions in their 2009 work plan.
Mrs Koranteng, who is also the Executive Director of CREWED, called for change in attitude towards the many negative practices that hindered the progress of women in the region .
She appealed to women groups in the region to join NETRIGHT since they would benefit from the educational programmes of the NGO.
For her part, the Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Women, Mrs Cate Bob-Millar, called on Ghanaians not to politicise the women’s manifesto document.
“The manifesto is non-partisan and does not belong to any political party. It is rather a document expressing women’s concern on inequality,” she stated.
Mrs Bob-Millar expressed the hope that similar programmes would be replicated in other districts in the region.