Another careers event and plans to help teenage girls …
Another successful Careers Event was held in July and a project to help teenage girls to miss less school lessons because of their menstrual periods is being developed.
Buriton’s small charity helps 12 Junior High schools in the Dominase area (as well as 13 Primary Schools) and this year’s Careers Event enabled about 700 children from the JH schools to hear from a range of speakers including a midwife, a doctor, an agricultural expert, an engineer, teachers and bank managers.
Feedback from local Education Officials confirms that these events are very useful, helping children consider which subjects to study in their last years at school and make good choices.
The first of these events was initiated by the Buriton Group in 2021 and it is now established as an annual event. Money is sent from Buriton to pay for transport to bring all the children from outlying schools to the venue and to pay for refreshments.
A new initiative to help teenage girls is intended to help tackle a problem that is common in many parts of the world. Without menstrual products many girls miss out on their education, having little choice but to stay at home, and this can gradually lead some to drop out altogether putting them at disadvantages and risks.
Buriton’s Village-to-Village Group is teaming up with ‘Girls Club Ghana’ to provide adolescent girls with knowledge and resources to help during menstruation.
Pilot projects at two schools are planned with monitoring of achievements. If successful, and if enough money can be raised in Buriton, it’s hoped that the programme can be run at all the Junior High Schools – helping hundreds of girls every year.
Buriton’s Village-to-Village Group also helps Dominase in other ways but is always looking for help with fund-raising and support.
A popular Quiz Night in January gave a boost to finances this year – and also increased the numbers of households who are kindly making regular monthly donations to this special cause.
A Barn Dance in the magnificent Ditcham Tithe Barn is being planned early in 2024 and if you think that you might be able to help with any of this work in any way please contact any of the Committee Members: Hannah Griffiths, Doug Jones, Sarah Osman, Mary Owens, Dominic Young-Ballinger or Mary & Bernie Saunders.
