MTN Ghana has partnered the Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation in the 2023 Girl’s In ICT programme held at Damongo in the Savannah Region on Tuesday, 9th May, 2023 under the theme “Digital skills for life”.
Addressing participants at the Damongo Community Center, a Senior Manager of MTN for Customer Retail Experience, Northern SBU, Madam Adwoa Baah Obeng, indicated that MTN Ghana is very proud of the thousand digital maidens who have just completed their foundational skills training in computing since MTN believes in doing.
She disclosed that in March this year, MTN in partnership with the Ministry of Communication and Digitalization cut the sod for the construction of a 25 million dollar ICT hub in Accra.
The facility according to her will provide an avenue to sustain the development of Ghana’s ICT aspirations and also used the opportunity to on behalf of MTN Ghana looks forward in seeing all the talented girls from the Savannah Region and beyond utilize the ICT hub and other associated facilities to create solutions and innovations that will transform Ghana.
Madam Adwoa Obeng
expressed the company’s delight to be associated with the kick off session of the 2023 Girl’s In ICT programme which was under the theme; “Digital skills for life”, which she said strongly connects to the words of Houlin Zhao, former general secretary of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU) who once said “girls in ICT day reminds everyone that ICT helps to improve the lives of people everywhere through better healthcare, better environmental management, better communication and educational systems that transforms the children and adults learn”.
She thanked the Teachers, Trainners and Mentors of the program for taking turns to invest in the live long skills in the girls.
Miss Mohammed Rahimmah an 11 year old from T.I. Ahmadiya Islamic School at Kpalbusi in the North East Gonja District in the Savannah Region emerged as the overall winner in the Girls-in-ICT project in the Savannah region.
She received a laptop, certificate, plaque, GHS 3,000 cash prize, and an ICT lab to be established in her district.
The second position is Alfreda Frimpong and the third position is Salu Saratu Alele also receives laptops, certificates, plaques, and GHS 2,500 cash prizes, and will also get an ICT lab established in their districts.
The other 97 girls were awarded laptops and certificates as the best out of the 1,000 girls selected for the Girls-in-ICT program in the Savannah region.
Some 40 best teachers from 7 districts in the Savannah region were also awarded laptops and certificates.
The National Girls-In-ICT is being implemented by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication ( GIFEC).
Source: nkilgifmonline.com
