{"id":319547,"date":"2017-05-16T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319547"},"modified":"2017-05-16T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:35:07","slug":"unfpa-partners-bamba-institute-to-promote-sdgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/unfpa-partners-bamba-institute-to-promote-sdgs\/","title":{"rendered":"UNFPA partners Bamba Institute to promote SDGs"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Bamba Islamic Institute Ghana (BII-Ghana), in Tamale has officially launched a program to strengthen its Sustainable Development Goals program.<\/p>\n
The program was launched on the theme, \u201cPromoting Community Development: The Role of the Muslim Clerics.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seeks to communicate ideas that will inspire, inform and motivate Muslim Clerics to join forces with development partners to transform their communities.<\/p>\n
The spiritual leader of Masjid Qudwa who doubles as Chief Executive Officer of the Bamba Islamic Institute Ghana (BII-Ghana), Sheikh Amin Bamba decried the alarming rate of illiteracy in Muslim communities and called for a paradigm shift.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n He maintained that illiteracy remained the cause of Muslim communities\u2019 underdevelopment which required a multifaceted approach to overturn the situation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe key factor that has slowed down the pace of development of Ghanaian Muslims is high rate of illiteracy. Illiteracy has denied and continues to deny majority of our people critical information that they require to make informed economic, social and political decisions to improve their livelihood.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is, therefore, logical to suggest that the appropriate strategy to address the illiteracy challenge is to use the United Nations\u2019 concept of \u2018partnership for the goals to package either relevant information or educational programs that can be delivered to the people through their religious and traditional representatives,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n