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Chartered Bank (SCB) Monday 6 March 2017 started celebrating the International
Women Day with 200 girls from St Joseph High School in Banjul.
According
to bank officials, the celebration was part of the International Women’s Day,
which marked the first event they would have with St Joseph High School to
re-initiate their goal programme.
The
goal programme, according to bank officials, was launched at St Joseph’s High
School last year 2016, a programme that teaches girls about their life skills
through sport.
The
bank officials further stated that there are 200 girls and they have done
classroom discussion with them about all the goal programme and modules.
The
goal programme has four modules: one of them include be yourself, be healthy,
be employed and know how to save money.
According
to them, what the bank does is to teach the girls how to manage their personal
hygiene, to know how to save money, to know what their rights are, and how they
could protect their rights.
During
this exercise at the St Joseph School ground, they divided the students into
various groups to be able to understand better about the modules the bank wants
to teach them.
They
played different games and each of these groups would go through all the
different stations and the games to cover some of the topics taught them.
According
to bank officials, among the expectations is that the girls, at the end of the
day, would understand some of the rights they have.
They
also hope that at the end of the day the skills that the bank teaches them will
be of great help and importance in transforming their livelihood, to become
better citizens of the nation.
