The 31st December Women's Movement (DWM) and other women and agricultural organisations are to benefit from support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Department of Agriculture, (USDA).
Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, President of the DWM, said this when officials of the two organisations paid a courtesy call on former President Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu at their Ridge residence in Accra recently.
In a statement from the office of the former president, Nana Konadu said the courtesy call was borne out of a promise by officials of the two organisations to explore opportunities to work with women organisations when they met her in Washington two years ago.
She said: "At the time we held informal discussions on how the two organisations could support women development in Ghana and mentioned education as a priority.
"During the meeting, the two organisations expressed interest in supporting women and children projects. I specifically requested for support in education and my husband emphasised the inroads that have been made by women in several facets of national development."
President Rawlings told the visiting delegation that he believed in gender balance and touted the hard work of women over the past 20 years, which had translated into economic and political empowerment.
The delegation expressed the readiness of their organisations to assist in promoting education, especially, early childhood development centres, established by the 31st December Women's Movement.
Nana Konadu later led the delegation to tour the Chorkor and Nima Early Childhood Development Centres and Primary Schools.
They also had the opportunity to observe a training programme for headteachers organised by the DWM.
The Movement has been very active over the past month with several branches within the Weija constituency of Greater Accra being inaugurated by the president of the movement Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings at a ceremony at Mallam junction, Race Course and Gbawe in Accra.
The branch executives drawn from Gbawe, Mallam, Tetegu, Aplaku, Pentecost Prayer camp area, McCarthy Hill and Galelle were sworn into office with a challenge to lead their local branches to ensure the total achievement of the movement's set objectives, which include the provision of employable skills for women, education for children, poverty reduction and women empowerment.
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