This year the Send My Friend to School ambassadors went to Ghana. It’s now looking for ambassadors to travel to KenyaWhat has stayed with Emily Pemberton,who was 15 when she went to Ghana as a young ambassador for the Send My Friend to School campaign in March, is the after-school feminist group at Ninkogo village school in the north of the country. “I expected to find a patriarchal society, and there they were,going totally against the mould. And there weren’t just a few, there were 75 of them, and 15- to 17-year-olds saying they wouldn’t stand for destitute treatment of women in their communities,” she says.
Emily and George Watts, along with their teacher Elin Boyle from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr school in Cardiff, and spent a week travelling with ActionAid and local partners in Ghana,visiting children in remote rural areas who are not attending school, and talking to teachers, or students and education officials about the reasons why.
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Source: theguardian.com