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Bishop Mathew Remijio Adam during his June 12 pastoral visit to Our Lady of Fatima Parish of Wau Diocese. Credit: Courtesy Photo

“We are not happy with fathers”: Catholic Bishop in South Sudan on Girls’ School Dropout

Jun 17, 2023

The Catholic Bishop in South Sudan’s Wau Diocese has faulted fathers in the East-Central African nation for not doing enough to keep their daughters in school, and contributing to the low levels of formal education completion for the girl child.

Bishop Anthony Adanuty, Founder of St. Catherine Girls Senior High and Bishop Gabriel Kumordji of Keta-Akatsi with Dignitaries at the decade celebration at Agbakope on October 19, 2019. Extreme right is Madam Benedicta Tenni Seidu, the Director of Girls’ Education Unit at the Ghana Education Service. / Damian Avevor

Ghana’s Development “inextricably tied to girl-child education”: Catholic Educationist

Oct 23, 2019

Despite significant strides by the West African nation of Ghana in realizing Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that governs the right to education for everyone, the universal education of girls remains a challenge, a Catholic educationist has said and encouraged literacy for the girl child as a way of guaranteeing national development.

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