{"id":193825,"date":"2025-03-18T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T04:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-our-commitment-to-women-empowerment-not-in-words-but-action-veep\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T04:57:39","slug":"ghana-our-commitment-to-women-empowerment-not-in-words-but-action-veep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-our-commitment-to-women-empowerment-not-in-words-but-action-veep\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Our Commitment to Women Empowerment Not in Words, but Action &#8211; Veep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, says government&#8217;s commitment to supporting women is &#8220;not just in words, but in action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;A clear demonstration of this is the provision of free sanitary pads for girls in primary and senior high schools, as captured in the recently read 2025 Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;This initiative ensures that young girls can stay in school without barriers to their education, reinforcing our belief that empowering women starts with empowering the girls,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503170548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, says government&#8217;s commitment to supporting women is &#8220;not just in words, but in action.&#8221; &#8220;A clear demonstration of this is the provision of free sanitary pads for girls in primary and senior high schools, as captured in the recently read 2025 Budget. &#8220;This initiative ensures that young girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[6394,258,256,6307,6461,4508,4509,257,254,7661,6524,14539],"class_list":["post-193825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commitment","tag-empowerment","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veep","tag-women","tag-words"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}