Cross Section of Participants |
About 600 girls
from all 38 Girls Senior High Schools in the country have converged at OLA
Senior High School in Ho to participate in the 2015 summer camp.
The annual camp,
instituted by the Forum of Heads of Girls Senior High School (FOHGSHS) in 2007,
is to provide a platform for the students to interact and deliberate on issues
of common interest.
Some of the schools include, Wesley Girls SHS, St. Louis SHS, Aburi Girls SHS, Mfantsiman Girls, Bolga Girls SHS, St. Mary's Girls SHS, E.P Mawuko Girls SHS, Gambaga Girls SHS, Tamale Girls SHS, Islamic Girls SHS, Krobo Girls SHS, Ahantanman Girls SHS, among others.
President of the forum and headmistress of Wesley Girls
Senior High School in Cape Coast, Mrs. Betty Dzokoto, said, FOHGSHS through the
annual camps, is committed to training
high calibre of ladies who will break new grounds by empowering young girls to break the socio-cultural
barriers which militates against their
holistic growth and development.
The one week camp
programme, which is themed, ‘the cyber menace’, will engage the young girls in
brainstorming the rudiments on the use of the cyber space and its associated
dangers to users.