Amos Ekow Coffie, the Founder and Executive Director of Girl Child Hygiene has called on all executives and volunteers with the firm to work assiduously to ensure the change the organization seeks to cause in society.
Speaking at the official launch of the firm’s website which was held on Zoom on February 1, 2023, the Executive Director stressed the need to work together as a team and transform society by empowering and providing the basic necessity of the girl child to achieve her dreams.
“We need to work together as a team, this is not for me this project is for all of us and we need to carry it like it’s our baby. It is just like a tall tree, without the branches and stems it can not stand tall, and it will fall off and die but for the branches, it is still standing tall and flourishing. This is us, this is what our organization is like, it dwells on the shoulders of everyone here and without your part of the branch this firm won’t stand tall, so let’s give it our all,” he said.
He also mentioned that “it is not just about launching the website but it is about promoting it and sharing it, to make sure the world gets to see what we are doing and the impact we are making”.
Explaining the Challenges the organization went through to put up the website, Michael Abbey, the Director of IT stated that, it wasn’t easy but he worked ‘non-stop’ around the clock just to get the desired results.
“It wasn’t easy, I worked both day and night sometimes just to get it done, but I put in my all and made sure that this was a success, I must say I am happy to see the result and to see the website turn into the tool that would change the narrative of the girl child in need,” he explained.
Project Manager Mesharck Okunnor, called on the team not to relent but work hard to reach the target set and achieve the goals of the organization.
“I am happy that now we have an official website where a lot of people can go and have a look at all the things we have been doing so far. We have all done a great job and we have to keep it up, we have to do more of the publicity so that we will reach wherever we want to reach,” he noted.
Background
Girl Child Hygiene is a non-profitable organization officially founded in 2021 and has made several donations before its incorporation in November 2022. It is aimed at providing sanitary products /pads to young girls in rural areas in Ghana, contributing to the achievement of SDG goal 3, 4 and 5.
In our quest to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3; “Good health and well-being”- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, the Girl Child Hygiene project provides sanitary products/pads and toiletries such as soap, roll-on etc and education on menstrual health/hygiene to these girls of selected schools in the province especially the rural areas every month.
Though our current activity is limited to deprived and rural areas in Ghana, we envisage widening our horizon internationally, with time.
In our bid to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 with our Girl Child Hygiene project, goal 4; Quality Education, is also achieved as these girls would not absent themselves from school and would have a sound mind to study to achieve their future aspirations.