Italian Ambassador happy with focus on Gender
The Italian Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Laura Carpini, has commended the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) for dedicating pages in its flagship newspaper, the Daily Graphic, to gender issues.
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She said gender issues were critical developmental issues which ought not to be relegated to the background.
Ms Carpini made the commendation when she paid a courtesy call on the Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, in Accra last Tuesday.
She indicated that men and women had different roles to play in the socio-economic development of nations, thus, creating a platform where their challenges and achievements could be appreciated was commendable.
Cooperation
Ms Carpini said while Italy sought to further its bilateral relations with Ghana, information sharing, collaboration and coorperation must be key factors in building such a relationship.
“Italy’s growing interest in Ghana is owing to the economic and political environment, and we would not hesitate to provide capacity in the area of architecture and urban planning when the opportunity presents itself,” Ms Carpini said.
The ambassador, who further called for collaboration with the GCGL in the area of churning out news reports on Italian companies in the country, also used the opportunity to invite the Graphic team to the embassy’s soon-to-be-held cultural symposium which would feature musical concerts, opera performances among others.
Capacity Building
Mr Ashigbey, for his part, said the GCGL remained a committed brand that would continue to tell the success story of organisations, foreign missions and the general society at large.
He said the embassy’s activities and capacity building programmes were practical areas Graphic would like to explore.
“One area of capacity building we intend to explore will be to encourage our journalists to partner their Italian counterparts in exchange programmes,” he said.
Introducing one of the company’s weekly paper’s, the Junior Graphic, to the ambassador, Mr Ashigbey said following the unavailability of textbooks in many public schools in rural communities, the paper had become a major learning tool for most pupils in such environments.
By Della Russel Ocloo/Daily Graphic/Ghana