She has also urged companies to invest in the training of girls in vocational or technical skills so that those companies could employ the girls to reap the benefit of the sponsorship while providing employment opportunities for the girls.

Ms Boye made the call during a ceremony to inaugurate a vocational centre for head porters, popularly known as ‘Kayayei’, at Mamobi in Accra.

According to her, “providing training for girls is a way of avoiding the cycle of poverty, since the skills they acquire will enable them to be economically viable”.

She said empowering vulnerable girls would make them self-sufficient, so that unscrupulous men would not take advantage of them due to their vulnerabilities.

Ms Boye said the AMS was in the process of rolling out plans to train the head porters in driving  so that they could be employed by the company.

The centre is part of the programme by Kunata Voluntary Organisation, the NGO that operates the Pamela Bridgewater Project, to develop vocational centres in Accra, Kumasi and the northern part of Ghana to train girls, irrespective of their background, for the development of the nation.

The NGO is also putting up another vocational centre at the Kawukudi Junction in Accra.

For his part, the Programmes Manager of the organisation, Mr Abdallah Musah, said the Pamela Bridgewater Project was initiating many projects aimed at providing a bright future for needy girls and their children through training, advocacy, protection and research.

He expressed appreciation to West Blue Consulting and AMS for their contribution to the Kayayei campaign and called on other corporate bodies to emulate their example.