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Barriers to the Girl-Child Education In Ghana, below are some of the main barriers.

1) Early marriage 2) Pregnancy 3) Poverty 4) Sexual harassment 5) Gender-based violence 6) Menstruation and stigmatization In 2018, a report done on African Youth Voices on Child Marriage by Abigail Oppong at Ariel Foundation International indicates how the survivors of child marriage shares their experience on how the lack of education at their early age, affected them negatively. According to some of the women, they felt dead and inhumane when they were forced to get married at that young age forfeiting their education.

Link to publication is here https://issuu.com/arielfoundation/docs/afi_final_report_on_child_marriage_ Reasons why we should invest in Girls’ Education Below are some of the reasons why we should invest in the Girl-Child education, if we seek to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goal 5.

1) The lifetime earnings of girls increases as they attain the skills needed to help them earn what they have worked hard to achieve.

2) There will be rise in national growth. As said by the late James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, if you educate a man, you educate an individual but if you educate a woman, you educate the whole nation.

3) The rate of child marriage would level down since most girls are motivated and supported to be in school 4) The rate of child mortality rates falls as the level of teenage pregnancy levels down.

5) The rate of maternal mortality rate falls as there will be no early childbirth death. The girls are in school.

The sacrifice these victims paid their life for is like the price certain young girls unwillingly pay to go through forfeiting their education. I stand with all the young girls who stay at home and watch their brothers go to school, the