Link to the soft copy: Growth and Changes - Ghana

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Brief History

Grow and Know was launched after the great success of a girl’s puberty book project in Tanzania. The girl’s book received an overwhelmingly positive response from girls and their mothers, aunties, grandmothers, school teachers, and even fathers and male peers. 

Convinced that the Tanzania girl’s puberty book, Vipindi vya Maisha, had tapped into an unmet need of girls around the world, Grow and Know was established with the aim of replicating the Tanzanian success story for girls and boys in other countries in need of growing up guidance.

Grow and Know was founded in the spirit of Dr. Jackie Kirk, a woman of tireless energy devoted to the cause of educating girls around the globe, and improving gender equity in schools. Her enormous passion and dedication, and particular interest in empowering girls growing into healthy young women, will be forever captured in the participatory methods used with young people for developing the content of the books we publish.

Our Approach

The Grow and Know team aims to develop books that are grounded in the local social, cultural, and economic context, and that capture the real perspectives of young people growing up today. Young peoples’ stories are incorporated alongside factual and appropriate guidance on the physiological and emotional changes of puberty and maturation. Recognizing the importance of authenticity in pictures and language, we contract with high quality local illustrators, translators, and publishers within each country of activity.

Special thanks to Amba Duaa Mensah Forson, Mary Helena Hammond, Ellen Gyekye, and finally our greatest thanks to all the Ghanaian girls (in school and out of school) who shared their experiences and participated actively in making this book a reality.

Authors:       T.Nana Mokoah Ackatia-Armah and Marni Sommer
Stories by:   Girls of Ghana

Translator:   Mr. Samuel Banning-Peprah

Illustrator:    Enoch Yaw Mensah

Layout and Design:    Smartline Publishers

                                   C3 Coastal Estates DTD

                                   Baatsona, Spintex Road - Accra

                                   Ghana - West Africa 

Printing Funded by:   Grow and Know, Inc

ISBN:                         978-9988-600-33-4

Copyright                2012 Grow and Know, Inc

All rights reserved; no part of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, translated in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the authors.

Links to other Publications in Grow & Know Series:

Tanzania
Growth & Changes (pdf)
Kuwa Kijana (pdf) (To Become a Young Man)

Cambodia
Growth & Changes (pdf)
Growth & Changes (pdf) (To Become a Young Man)

Laos
I am a teenager (pdf)

Ethiopia
Growth & Changes (pdf) (Amharic)
Growth & Changes (pdf) (Oromiffa)
Growth & Changes (pdf) (Tigregna)

Ghana
Growth & Changes (pdf)

Madagascar
Growth & Changes (pdf)