Ace broadcast journalist of the Ghana Television (GTV) and the Executive Producer of The Standpoint TV programme, Dr. Gifty Anti has deepened her support for girl-child education, following the launch of the Girl In Need Foundation in Accra over the weekend.
The foundation comes at a time when her T.V programme, The Standpoint, is marking its 5th anniversary this year.
The Standpoint, which is a weekly female advocacy television show, hosted by Gifty and aired on Ghana Television looks at issues affecting predominantly women and men.
Dr. Anti told The Chronicle at the Trinity Baptist Church, opposite University of Professional Studies (UPS), formerly IPS, where the foundation was launched that ‘the programme has brought out challenges women face that had not been broached and opened doors for women to express themselves’.
According to the awards winning newscaster of the state broadcaster, it had not been all smooth. She added that men continued to fight her over issues of gender while her unmarried status is sometimes used against her.
‘I get reports some husbands prevent their wives from watching my show because according to them I am not married and do not have a child, so how can they learn from someone like me.
‘But the same men sneak into their rooms and other secret places to watch the Standpoint TV programme’, Dr Anti told journalists who were at the launch to give moral support to their senior colleague.
In spite of all the hurdles, she is happy that the programme has helped and touched the lives of so many women and homes, which attests to the fact that the show is good adding that she is encouraged that people now recognize her as ‘Gifty of Standpoint’ instead of just GTV.
Dr. Gifty Anti, who received an honorary doctorate degree from the Global Center for Transformational Leadership (GCTL) last year, for her contribution to society, noted that the newly launched foundation would support the education and vocation empowerment of girls from 18 years below. She told this reporter that the foundation’s request for support from corporate Ghana was overwhelming. Dr. Anti used the occasion to further appeal to philanthropists, individuals, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to donate generously to the foundation.
Dr. Anti advised women to learn how do something like even singing and trading in case the matrimonial home is boiling they can rely on that for a living. She also advised women who are in abusive marriages to quit.
The leader of the Fountain Gate Chapel, Rev Eastwood Anaba who launched the foundation prayed that may the foundation grow from strength to strength.
Rev. Anaba, who was the first to donate GH¢1, 000 to the foundation appealed to all and sundry to support the foundation to uplift girls from the challenges.
Speaking at conference dubbed: ‘Women Called To Worship Conference’ earlier, he biblically stated: ‘Nothing is impossible to God. You don’t need all the brilliants in this world to succeed, what you rather need is God’s Command. Without it you can toil and toil but nothing meaningful will come out of it’.
Rev Anaba continued: ‘When you see western economies collapsing, it is the time for African economies to rise up’.The conference and launch was graced by a galaxy of personalities including the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Creative Arts, Madam Dzifa Abla Gomashie, and UK Based-Ghanaian banker and author, Allen Caiquooo.
Also present were seasoned gospel artists such as Mary Ghansah, Selina Boateng, Cynthia Mccaulley, Becky Bonnie, Mrs. Sandra Oduro and her husband, and Patience Abor.
