The Women's Development Centre, a department of the All Nation's University at Koforidua, has introduced remedial classes for women who could not write their final Senior High School Certificate Examination (SSCE) due to financial constraint or pregnancy.
The programme, which is being run at no cost, started last year February and has supported 26 women and girls to progress to tertiary education.
The Co-ordinator of the Women's Centre, Mrs Theresa Appiah, told the Ghana News Agency that the centre was established five years to develop and support the full participation of women and girls in every aspect of society through training and educational programmes.
There are currently more than 300 illiterate women learning to read and write.
According to Mrs Appiah, the remedial programme was introduced because it was realized that apart from the illiterate women at the market, a large number of women who wish to continue their education could not do so.
She said some of the JHS graduates who enrolled at the programme initially had to be taken through a two-year literacy programme by the centre before being absorbed into the remedial classes to prepare them for the SSCE.