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Pulse: Mentoring girls in rural Ghana

September 26, 2017

Many young girls living in rural communities in Ghana appear to have low confidence in themselves. In academia for instance, educationists say lack of self-esteem amongst girls has affected their performance. To break this cycle, Portia Derry and Angela Seidu are mentoring younger girls in schools by forming mentorship clubs which seek to advance the status of girls from low income communities.

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Maxwell Suuk Maxwell is a DW reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana.