Navrongo Traditional Leaders Plead To End Child Marriage
Traditional rulers, stakeholders at the workshop In a bold change of custom, traditional leaders in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region, are sharpening new tools of knowledge to support the fight against child marriage. They said they had observed the harmful cultural practice had frustrated the bright future of dozens of young adolescents as scores of them had had their education truncated, with others living in misery. The pledge was made at a two-day capacity building workshop on ending child marriage organised by the Obaapa Development Foundation, a non-profit organisation, at Navrongo, capital of the Kassena-Nankana Municipality. The NGO, with funding support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been embarking on the project, dubbed: “Ending Child Marriage” since 2023. The project seeks to sensitise chiefs, traditional leaders who are the guardians of culture to rise to become champions of change,...
