The Director-General of the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Ms Audrey Azoulay, is expected in the country today during which she will hold a bilateral meeting with the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
She will also participate in a high-level conference on girls’ education, with ministers of education and health and senior officials from 17 sub-Saharan African countries.
Ms Azoulay is expected to open the conference to be held on the theme: “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future” as part of two of UNESCO’s main priorities dubbed: Gender and Africa.
It is being organised with support from Sweden and Ireland and aims at assisting UNESCO to improve health education for adolescents and young people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ms Azoulay would later visit the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), to meet young girls who benefited from the UNESCO-led “Girls Can Code” project launched by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo.
The programme has so far trained 150 girls and 10 adult female ICT teachers in computer application development and coding.
By Times Reporter
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