The girls, most of whom returned from Kumasi and Accra recently after several months of Kayayei trading (a head-portering adventure often associated with people of Northern descend), were happy they are to be given free vocational skills training in dressmaking.
The cost of training, sewing machines in addition to 15 bicycles for the girls would amount to GH¢3,810.00, according to the organisation.
The bicycles which were also provided by the non-governmental organisation is to facilitate their movement from Kulaa to Tamale township which is about 3 kilometres for their training.
At the presentation of the training equipment to the young girls at Kulaa, Director of Bibir-Ghana, Joseph Charles Osei, urged parents to monitor their daughters from the beginning of the training till the end.
He warned that he would take away everything if any of their girls is put in the family way in the course of the training and also advised the beneficiaries to attach seriousness to the training.
On the other hand, the Member of Parliament of the Tamale North Constituency, Alhaji Abukar Sumani, also donated 70 school uniforms to children in Kulaa.
The uniforms which were presented by Baba Iddrisu Andani, Deputy Constituency Secretary of the NDC in Tamale North, was in fulfillment of a request made by Bibir-Ghana to the MP to partner with the organization to help children in the community who were schooling but had no school uniforms to wear.
Meanwhile, the Assemblyman for Kulaa-Gbalahi, Sayibu Haruna, has appealed to the MP and the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly to provide communities in his area with safe drinking water, electricity and sufficient schools to cater for the large crowd of pupils.
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