The Iranian Embassy in Ghana, has pledged to contribute to the promotion of education of Muslim girls in the country.
As a prelude to the initiative, the Embassy would from Thursday, November 26, undertake an eight-week campaign in the Kumasi Metropolis to
highlight the importance of education to development.
Alhaji Mohammed Yushau, Coordinator of the Campaign, who announced these through GNA in Kumasi on Tuesday, said the drive was necessitated by the decline in enrolment of Muslim children, especially girls, in schools in the metropolis.
He called on Ghanaians, particularly Muslims to consider education as a powerful and effective weapon for fighting poverty, ignorance, diseases and violence, and invest in the sector.
Alhaji Yushau commended the efforts of the Iranian Embassy and appealed to Muslims to send their children to school adding that it could help them to have a better understanding of the history and ethics of Islam.