GILMNET 2015 HANDING OVER AND INDUCTION HELD AT OLA GIRLS

Girls Leadership and Mentorship Network (GILMNET) held a handing over and induction for the outgoing and incoming executives on the 1st of May.This years handing over was held at the OLA girls assembly hall with the presence of the senior housemistress Mrs Charlotte Crentsil, the assistant headmistress Sis.Theresa Kusi Animaa,the GADeF CEO Mr Emmanuel Marfo and two other staff from GADeF/Phinklife.
The program lasted for an hour as part of the activities on the program we had talk on how to avoid the negative influence of social media by Sis Theresa Kusi Animaa from which a lot of lessons were as to how they are going to leave their life as they are going to the tertiary institution and those still schooling how they can combine the two without any difficulties the advantages, the dangers and how useful it can be for the girls.The CEO gave his last words to the outgoing executives and to the incoming executives to work to the extreme to continue the good works their predecessors have started to raise the networks name in the school at large .
The executives and members received certificates for their effective participation in the club as a token to mark their good works done.Later on we had a speeches from the out going president and incoming president.Martha Navele gave us the vote of thanks and the meeting came to its climax with a closing prayer.

 The Girls Network in picture

Outgoing executives handing over to the incoming executives

Outgoing executives handing over to the incoming executives

Outgoing executives handing over to the incoming executives

Evanscella Abaa (Outgoing President) reading her report

New President (Jessica Osei Andoh) reading her report 

 Jemima Ansah (Schools club Coordinators GADeF) giving out certificate to Ms Dorcas Yebelang P.R.O for the network

 Mrs Charlotte Crentsil giving out certificate to Ms Martha Navele (Communication Officer)

Mrs Charlotte Crentsil giving out certificate to Dorcas Boakyewaa Agyemang (Vice President)

 Sis. Theresa Kusi Animaa giving out certificates to Evanscella Abaa (President)

Sis Theresa Kusi Animaa giving out certificate to Linda Agyei (Organizing secretary)

Jemima Ansah giving out certificate to Susana Afriyie (an active member)

Jemima Ansah giving out certificate to Jamila Nketia (an active member)

Mr Emmanuel Marfo giving out certificate to Sandra Oppong (an active member)

GILMNET Out-gone executives in a pose

Report by: Jemima Ansah

Schools Club Coordinator

LITWORLD CLUB ELECTS NEW EXECUTIVES

Global Alliance for Development Foundation (GADeF)'s newly established LitWorld club at Fountain Gate elects new and first executives to run the club till September this year.
The executive positions were characterized into five namely;President,Vice- President,General Secretary,Organizing Secretary and Public Relation Officer (P.R.O).Since its a new class member were briefed about the roles of every executive and chance were given to them to stand for the position they were interested in and the end of the meeting it turned out that Miss Elizabeth Oppong was the president,Miss Gifty Achiga vice- president,Miss Wendy Tetteh general secretary,Miss Francisca Agyeiwaa organizing secretary and Miss Deborah Sawyer our P.R.O.

Executives in a pose with President in the middle,Vice- President at the immediate left,followed by General Secretary and at the immediate right we have the Organizing Secretary, followed by the P.R.O.

Report By: Jemima Ansah

Schools Club Coordinator

2015 WORLD READ ALOUD DAY AT FOUNTAIN GATE INTERNATIONAL

Global Alliance for Development Foundation (GADeF) in partnership with LitWorld organized a World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) at Fountain Gate International School on 4^th March with 25 club members of LitWorld. Among the 25 members, we had 10 of them contesting with three lucky winners for the read aloud competition.

Members of LitWorld club

The competition was taken in two rounds, with each round five students contesting. The contestants were given a news paper from which each student is allowed to choose the story of choice and given two minutes to read.

Contestants for 1st round                                                                               We had three judges for the competition, the first judge was looking at the fluency of the contestants, the second judge was looking at the words pronunciation and the third judge looked at how fast they  can read, all these were being checked while they read their news items.

Contestants for 2nd round

 After the two rounds three girls came out as our winners for the 2015 WRAD. The second runner up had 12 points, the first runner up had 12.5 points and the winner had 14 points.

Winners for the competition Each of the winners received a certificate from LitWorld. One of the teachers gave out the certificate for the 2nd runner up, GADeF administrator gave out the certificate for the 1st runner up and GADeF programs coordinator gave out the certificate for the winner.

2nd runner up Wendy Tetteh receives her certificate from Mr. Justice Azoglo

1st runner up Francisca Agyeiwaa receives her certificate from Mr. Evans Frempong

Our proud winner Deborah Sawyer receives her certificate from Mr. Hafiz Dauda

PHOTO GALLERY OF MEMBERS AFTER THE PROGRAM

Members of Lit World with some teachers and club coordinator

The 10 contestants with winners with Mr. Hafiz Dauda the Program Coordinator and Miss Jemima Ansah School Clubs Coordinator Report By : Jemima Ansah  Schools Girls Club Coordinator

Workshop on Programming and Budgeting at GADeF

Workshop on Programming and Budgeting at GADeF

Join the group as they plan for the future of girls worldwide!

Courtesy Visit to MP of Asutifi North and Chief of Ntrotroso

The next day, 26^th August 2014, started with a visit to the MP of Asutifi North district.

He expressed his readiness to support the group in the goals they were looking forward to achieve. He also have plans taking us to the Parliament house so we would have see for ourselves, what happens in there.

The crew continued on to the chief of Ntrotroso’s Palace.

On arrival, the crew had to wait outside for sometime as the chief was addressing his people. When they finally had the chance to enter, they had to first greet the chief, followed by the other 15 or so elders after which they were shown their seats. The chief gave a welcome address and demanded to know their mission. The coordinator of GILMNET club stood to formally introduce the group, thus making the chief know of the reason for their visit. He stated that: ‘We are an NGO based in Kenyasi. Our main interest is to help reduce in young adults (especially teenage girls) the increasing rate of early sex thus, teenage pregnancy. However, during the talk, it began to rain and the crew had the opportunity to see the treatment the Ntrotroso people be gave their chief. It was actually interesting to see how the elders quickly stood up and covered the chief with their clothes so he could get up. The crew had to wait until it stopped raining before the chief came out again to address them and this took over thirty minutes after which, hardworking as they are, helped in cleaning up.

Once seated, the chief addressed his visitors once again, answering their questions with much delight and requesting to know if there were any other questions for him.

He stated that the name of the town, Ntrotroso, was named after a river by their ancestors, which provided them with all their needs when they were looking for a land to settle down.  And so, that was the only way they could show their gratitude unto the river.

After a few more inquiries on the mission of the club, the chief was satisfied and promised his best in supporting the crew in their beneficial project.
Quote of the day: Aspire to inspire others (ZieleePL)

Educational Tour Begins

25^th August 2014, the group is out on another field trip, this one, as a workshop. After visiting many other places, one of the members is added up to the crew, now speaking. Around 10:30a.m the secretary of the group, Navele Martha, is picked up from the station by the GILMNET crew, made up of seven very beautiful and capable young girls, along with their coordinator Belinda Afreh of GADeF.

First of all, they head to the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) where they meet the administrator in the person of Mrs Irene Appiah-Fei.

She was kind enough to answer the numerous questions the group asked her such as how to get admission to the school, the various opportunities a girl has when educated, the name of her alma mater ( Efia Kobi SHS) and to top it all up, she gave motherly or sisterly advice to the girls, telling them to take their education seriously, so that one day, they might become responsible women in the society. She also made it known that they would be very welcome into the school if they managed to pass their exams well (A1-C6). The girls were indeed grateful and after a vote of thanks, they had some pictures taken to serve as a souvenir.

From the administration, the crew were given permission to tour around the university.

The first place of interest was the auditorium of the school which was nicely decorated, including the ceiling which had ribbons attached to light bulbs.

Pictures were taken in front of the auditorium, and then they went on to the hostels. Most of the place, as remarked, was beautifully tiled and although the students were on vacation, the crew had the chance to take a quick glance at the outward view of the rooms. Again, some pictures were taken and they then proceeded to visit Pastor Clement Achim Gyimah, who is a representative of the ROJALNU(UNAIDS hosted) for West Africa, happily married with two lovely children. The crew had the chance to ask questions like, what other work he does apart from his pastoral work, why he was interested in community development and if he would be willing to help out the GILMNET club in their developments plans for the community. He answered the questions with much delight. He said he liked to help people and that is why aside his pastoral work, he chose to still help poor and needy children.

  

Coincidentally, the crew happened to troop in the next day after his daughter’s birthday (Josephine) so they honoured her with a birthday song and a small gift, of which she was very happy. The Pastor expressed his willingness to help in whatever the crew wanted to carry out, provided it would benefit the needy of society and so after another round of pictures, they head out to visit Action aid.

Action aid is a non-profit organization which seeks to help young people, especially girls, so they have the chance to vie for better lives, free of poverty. Handouts on the recent girls’ camp they organized for the community girls were provided the crew.

The visit to Action aid marked the end of the day as the crew returned home tired but happy about the events of the day.

Quote of the day: Embrace every opportunity that comes your way! (ZieleePL) 

Interview at UENR

GILMNET Workshop